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Stock markets, banks, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from the MENA region
Authors:Samy Ben Naceur  Samir Ghazouani  
Institution:aInstitut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC), 2016 Carthage Présidence, Tunisia;bInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC, United States;cLaboratoire d’Economie et Finance Appliquées (LEFA), and Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité & d’Administration des Entreprises (ISCAE), Campus Universitaire de Manouba, 2010 Manouba, Tunisia
Abstract:Over the last four decades, a wide theoretical debate is concerned with the fundamental relationship between financial development and economic growth. Recent studies shed some light on the simultaneous effect of banks and financial system development on growth rather than a separate impact. The empirical study is conducted using an unbalanced panel data from 11 MENA region countries. Econometric issues will be based on estimation of a dynamic panel model with GMM estimators. Thus, peculiarities of MENA region countries will be detected. The empirical results reinforce the idea of no significant relationship between banking and stock market development, and growth. The association between bank development and economic growth is even negative after controlling for stock market development. This lack of relationship must be linked to underdeveloped financial systems in the MENA region that hamper economic growth. Then, more needs to be done to reinforce the institutional environment and improve the functioning of the banking sector in the MENA region. Based on these results, other regions at the same stage of financial development such as Africa, Eastern Europe or Latin America should improve the functioning of their financial system in order to prevent their economies from the negative impact of a shaky financial market.
Keywords:Bank development  Stock market development  Economic growth  Dynamic panel data models  MENA region
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