Banks as Catalysts for Industrialization |
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Authors: | Marco Da Rin Thomas Hellmann |
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Institution: | a Department of Economics and Finance, Università di Torino, Turin, 10134, Italy;b IGIER, Milan, 20136, Italy;c Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305 |
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Abstract: | We provide a new theory of the role of banks as catalysts for industrialization. In their influential analysis of continental European industrialization, Gerschenkron and Schumpeter argued that banks promoted the creation of new industries. We formalize this role of banks by introducing financial intermediaries into a “big push” model. We show that banks may act as catalysts for industrialization provided they are sufficiently large to mobilize a critical mass of firms and that they possess sufficient market power to make profits from coordination. The theory provides simple conditions that help explain why banks seem to play a creative role in some but not in other emerging markets. The model also shows that universal banking helps to reduce the cost of acting as catalyst. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: G21, N2, O14, O16. |
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Keywords: | Abbreviations: banksAbbreviations: universal bankingAbbreviations: financial historyAbbreviations: industrialization |
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