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Financial development and financing constraints - international evidence from the structural investment model, Volume 1

Author:	Love, Inessa;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2694
Date Stored:	2001/12/11	Document Date:	2001/10/31
Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper	Language:	English
Major Sector:	Finance	Report Number:	WPS2694
Sub Sectors:	Financial Sector Development	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; International Terrorism & Counterterrorism; Economic Theory & Research; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Banks & Banking Reform; Decentralization; Financial Intermediation
Volume No:	1

Summary: The relationship between the financial, and real sides of the economy has long been a topic of intense interest, and debate. The author provides microeconomic evidence that financial development aids growth, by reducing financing constraints that would otherwise restrict efficient firm investment. The author estimates a structural model, based on the Euler equation for investment, using firm-level data from forty countries. The results show a strong negative relationship between the extent of financial market development, and the sensitivity of investment, to the availability of internal funds (a proxy for financing constraints). Considering size effects, business cycles, and the legal environment as plausible alternative explanations, the author finds the results to be robust in all cases.


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