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Financial dependence and international trade [Dataset]
Does financial development translate into a comparative advantage in industries that use more external finance? We use industry-level data on firms’ dependence on external... -
Finance, firm size, and growth [Dataset]
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Small and medium enterprises across the globe [Dataset]
This paper analyzes the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) Sector and the business environment in 76 countries. The paper first... -
Finance and the sources of growth [Dataset]
This paper evaluates the empirical relationship between the level of financial intermediary development and (i) economic growth, (ii) total factor productivity growth, (iii)... -
Law, endowments, and finance [Dataset]
Using a sample of former colonies, this paper assesses two theories regarding the historical determinants of financial development. The law and finance theory holds that legal... -
New tools in comparative political economy: The database of political institu...
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Economic, demographic, and institutional determinants of life insurance consu...
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Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries [Dataset]
This paper is a first attempt at measuring financial sector outreach and investigating its determinants. First, we present new indicators of banking sector outreach across 99... -
Stock markets, banks and growth: Panel evidence [Dataset]
This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period 1976-98 and applying recent GMM techniques developed for... -
Institution building and growth in transition economies [Dataset]
Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, we offer a political economy explanation of why institution building has... -
Financial development and international trade: Is there a link? [Dataset]
This paper explores a possible link between financial development and trade in manufactures. The theoretical model focuses on the role of financial intermediaries in... -
Banking services for everyone? Barriers to bank access and use around the wor...
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SMEs, growth, and poverty: Cross-country evidence [Dataset]
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on... -
Industry growth and capital allocation: Does having a market- or bank-based s...
Are market-based or bank-based financial systems better at financing the expansion of industries that depend heavily on external finance, facilitating the formation of new... -
Financing Africa: Through the crisis and beyond [Dataset]
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Finance, inequality and the poor [Dataset]
Financial development disproportionately boosts incomes of the poorest quintile and reduces income inequality. About 40% of the long-run impact of financial development on the... -
Law and finance: Why does legal origin matter? [Dataset]
This paper assesses empirically two theories of why legal origin influences financial development. The political channel stresses that legal traditions differ in the priority... -
Big bad banks? The winners and losers from bank deregulation in the United St...
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Bank supervision and corruption in lending [Dataset]
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