Equity markets and growth: Cross-country evidence on timing and outcomes, 1980–1995 |
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Authors: | P L Rousseau P Wachtel |
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Institution: | a Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Box 1819 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235, USA;b Department of Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 W. 4 St., New York, NY 10012, USA |
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Abstract: | The rapid expansion of organized equity exchanges in both emerging and developed markets has prompted policymakers to raise important questions about their macroeconomic impact, yet the need to focus on recent data poses implementation difficulties for econometric studies of dynamic interactions between stock markets and economic performance in individual countries. This paper overcomes some of these difficulties by applying recent developments in the analysis of panels with a small time dimension to estimate vector autoregressions for a set of 47 countries with annual data for 1980–1995. After describing recent theories on the role of stock markets in growth and considering a pure cross-sectional empirical approach, our panel VARs show leading roles for stock market liquidity and the intensity of activity in traditional financial intermediaries on per capita output. The findings underscore the potential gains associated with developing deep and liquid financial markets in an increasingly global economy. |
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Keywords: | Stock markets Financial intermediation Economic growth Dynamic panel Panel VAR |
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