Financial development and economic growth: Evidence from China

This paper investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth for the case of China over the period 1952–2001. After considering the time series characteristics of the dataset, a multivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) framework is used as an appropriate specification and the long-run relationship among financial development, growth and other key growth factors is analyzed in a theoretically based high dimensional system by identification of co-integrating vectors through tests of over-identifying restrictions. The empirical results suggest that there exists a unidirectional causality from economic growth to financial development, conclusions departing distinctively from those in the previous studies.     

A Contribution to the Empirics of Finance-growth Nexus in China: A Complex System Perspective

Abstract

The paper empirically examines the causal interactions between Chinese financial development and economic growth using the perspective of complex systems as a metaphor in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the co-evolution of China's real and financial sectors. Using Hsiao's version of the Granger causality tests, the empirical results support a complex set of bidirectional causality between the financial development proxies and economic growth variables. Despite numerous alleged financial intermediation's inefficiencies, bidirectional causality would suggest a coherent and effective finance-growth ecosystem.     

Financial Development,Capital Accumulation and Productivity Improvement: Evidence from China

Financial sector development may contribute to economic growth by facilitating capital accumulation and by improving productivity. This article investigates empirically the contribution that financial development may make to these two alternative drivers of economic growth in China using annual data for the period 1952 to 2005. Using cointegration and Granger-causality testing we examine the relationship between financial development and, respectively, capital accumulation and productivity in a time-series vector autoregression (VAR) framework. The substantive findings are that there is either bi-directional Granger causality between financial development and capital accumulation or that Granger causality runs from capital accumulation to financial development, depending on how capital accumulation and financial development are measured. The link between financial development and productivity is found to be statistically weak.     

Re‐Visiting Financial Development and Economic Growth Nexus: The Role of Capitalization in Bangladesh

This paper revisits the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Bangladesh by incorporating trade openness in production function using quarter frequency data over the period of 1976‐2012. We applied combined Bayer–Hanck cointegration approach to examine cointegration among the series. Our empirical evidence suggests that development of financial sector facilitates economic growth but capitalization impedes it. In addition, trade openness stimulates economic growth. Labour is also positively linked to economic growth. The vector error correction model Granger causality results divulge that financial development causes real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth, and resultantly, real per capita GDP growth causes financial development in a Granger sense. The results also show that trade and labour Granger cause economic growth. The findings of the paper provide insights for policymakers to use financial development and trade openness as a tool for sustained economic growth in the long run. The paper also suggests policymakers to utilise capitalization in a way that is beneficial for economic growth of Bangladesh.     

贵州省农村金融发展与农村经济增长关系的实证分析

本文以农村金融与经济增长相关理论为基础,阐述贵州省农村金融发展和经济增长现状,根据1978～2009年数据,通过协整检验说明贵州省农村金融发展农村经济增长之间存在长期均衡关系,并建立VAR模型来考察金融相关率变动与第一产业值之间的动态影响关系。实证分析表明,与经济增长速度相比,贵州省农村金融发展程度相对滞后,贵州农村经济增长对农村金融发展的影响要大于金融发展对经济增长的影响,农村金融发展对经济增长的促进作用不明显。     

Stock Markets,Banks and Long Run Economic Growth: A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis

The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these three variables for 5 developing countries. In addition, we test the direction of potential causality between financial and economic development. Our results conclude to the existence of a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development to economic growth. We find little evidence of reverse causation as well as bi-directional causality. We interpret this as evidence supporting the significance of financial development for economic development although banks and stock markets may have different effects depending on the level of economic development.     

教育投入、经济增长与新型城镇化建设研究

文章基于1978—2012年我国财政教育经费支出、经济增长和城镇化发展的年度数据,采用单位根检验、协整分析和格兰杰因果关系检验的方法,对三者之间的关系进行了实证分析。结论显示:教育投入、经济增长与新型城镇化建设三者之间存在长期均衡关系。格兰杰因果检验表明,教育投入与经济增长为单向因果关系,经济增长与新型城镇化互为双向因果关系,教育投入与新型城镇化为双向因果关系。因此,增加教育投入对于经济增长与新型城镇化建设具有正向积极作用。     

The Finance–Growth Link in Latin America

This paper analyzes the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Latin America with a Granger causality test and impulse response functions in a panel vector autoregression (VAR) model. With annual observations from a sample of 18 countries from 1962 to 2005, it is shown that while economic growth causes financial development, financial development does not cause economic growth. This finding is robust to different model specifications and different financial indicators. Interestingly, when the sample is divided according to different income levels and institutional quality, there is two‐way causality between financial development and economic growth only for the middle income group and for countries with stronger rule of law and creditor rights. The impulse response functions show that a shock to financial development has a positive impact on economic growth only for these subsamples, but the net effect of financial development on growth is relatively small.     

Testing the nexus between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality in Nigeria: The role of broad‐based financial development

This study investigates the nexus between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality in Nigeria, accounting for the role of financial development, and re‐examines the validity of the environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) hypothesis for Nigeria covering the period 1990 to 2016. To cover financial development more adequately, the current study uses the broad‐based financial development index constructed by the International Monetary Fund. The study employs second generation econometric approaches of Lee and Strazicich, and Bayer and Hanck combined cointegration tests to check for stationarity and cointegration among the variables, and then applies autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and vector error correction model (VECM) Granger causality tests to explore the effect and causal relationship respectively. The results divulge that renewable energy consumption improves environmental quality, while financial development hurts the environment. Further, the results validate an inverted U‐shaped association between economic growth and environmental degradation in Nigeria. The VECM Granger causality results indicate a long‐run effect of the independent variables on CO₂ emission, while the short‐run causality reveals a mixture of unidirectional and bidirectional causality among the variables. This study therefore recommends that policy makers consider the important roles of renewable energy and financial development in reforming energy policies to achieve environmental sustainability.     

基于经济区视角下的区域金融发展与经济增长关系的实证研究——以京津冀经济区为例

本文从跨行政区的经济区的视角来研究区域金融发展与经济增长之间的关系,采用协整检验和因果关系检验对以京津冀经济区进行实证研究。检验结果显示:在京津冀经济区金融规模与金融效率对经济增长存在正相关性,但是,两者对经济增长的促进作用并不显著。金融规模与经济增长之间不具有因果关系,而经济增长与金融效率之间存在显著的单向因果关系。说明京津冀经济区的经济增长与金融深化发展遵循的是需求引致型发展模式。     

山东省金融结构与经济增长关系实证研究

金融发展与经济增长的关系一直受到学者的广泛关注,但有关金融结构与经济增长效应的研究却相对滞后.相比较金融规模而言,金融结构更能反映金融业的功能和效率且金融结构的优化对经济增长更具有推动作用.文章基于协整理论对山东省经济增长与金融结构的关系进行了实证研究,研究结果表明:山东省金融结构与经济增长存在长期协整关系,且贷款结构与经济增长存在双向因果关系.但山东省经济增长与融资结构演进之间并不存在因果关系,银行集中度变化并未构成经济增长的原因.     

中国转轨时期金融深化与经济增长关系实证分析

文章采用协整检验与基于VAR模型的Granger因果关系检验,分析了改革开放以来我国金融深化与经济增长之间的关系.研究表明,金融深化与经济增长既存在长期的稳定关系,也存在双向因果关系.因此,在促进我国经济增长的战略中,要充分重视金融深化因素的作用.同时通过聚类分析表明,我国金融深化进程以1991年为界限划分为前后两个阶段,在前一个阶段中经济增长主导金融深化,而在后一个阶段中金融深化主导经济增长.     

南京经济增长与金融发展关系的协整分析

文章利用1985-2007年的样本数据,基于Granger因果检验和多变量VAR模型的JJ协整检验,实证结果表明南京的金融发展与经济增长没有Granger因果关系。但有显著的正向促进作用。基于脉冲响应函数和方差分解技术的实证结果显示,南京的金融发展对经济增长的影响具有滞后性,平均贡献度在1％左右。最后,针对实证结果,给出南京经济增长过程中金融支持方面的对策与建议。     

水利基础设施建设与农业经济增长——基于新疆的实证分析

文章运用计量经济理论和方法,在对新疆水利基础设施建设与农业经济增长进行格兰杰因果检验的基础上,实证分析了新疆水利基础设施建设对农业经济增长和减缓贫困的贡献程度。结果表明：新疆水利基础设施建设和农业经济增长之间存在着双向因果关系,并对农业经济增长和减缓贫困均具有统计上的显著影响。     

福建省经济增长的金融支持研究

一个地区的经济增长和金融发展之间存在密切的关系。本文在已有理论和文献的基础上,采用协整分析和格兰杰因果检验对1980年到2012年福建省经济增长和金融发展之间的关系进行研究,发现福建省经济增长和金融发展之间存在相关性,福建省经济增长和金融发展互为Granger因果关系。通过分析实证研究的结果,为福建省推动金融深化,促进福建省下一阶段的金融发展与经济增长之间保持良性互动,提供有价值的政策建议。     

Banking Sector Development and Energy Consumption in Nigeria: Exploring the Causal Relationship and its Implications

This study examines the causal relationship between banking sector development and energy consumption in Nigeria over the period 1971–2013 incorporating crude oil price and indicators of economic performance. An autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to cointegration provides evidence of long‐run relationship among the variables. The long‐run and short‐run estimates suggest that a non‐linear inverted U‐shaped relationship exists between banking sector development and energy consumption in Nigeria, indicating that initially, energy consumption increases as the banking sector develops and then declines as the banking sector matures to generate efficiency in energy consumption. In addition, this study explores the direction of causality between the variables using the Toda–Yamamoto Granger causality test procedure. The results suggest that a unidirectional causality runs from crude oil price to banking sector development, from banking sector development to energy consumption and from energy consumption to economic growth. It may therefore be necessary for policy makers in Nigeria to incorporate banking sector development in the energy and sustainable economic policies.     

Financial Deepening and Economic Growth Linkages: A Panel Data Analysis

The paper examines whether a long-run relationship between financial development and economic growth exists employing panel integration and cointegration techniques for a dynamic heterogeneous panel of 15 OECD and 50 non-OECD countries over the period 1975–2000. Three different measures of financial deepening are used to capture the variety of different channels through which financial development can affect growth. Our findings support the existence of a single long-run equilibrium relation between financial deepening, economic growth and a set of control variables. Further, the evidence points to a bi-directional causality between financial deepening and growth. JEL no. O11, O16, C33     

我国整体及四大经济区域的金融安全评价指标体系的构建研究

随着金融业的发展,不断积累的金融风险将对我国的金融安全构成严重威胁,而金融安全是经济可持续健康发展的基础和重要保障。因此,有必要构建我国整体及各区域的金融安全评估体系。根据2011-2019年第三季度（共计35个季度）的数据,从宏观经济环境、财政和金融三个维度选取指标并运用熵值法进行赋权,对全国及四大经济区域的金融安全指数及其变化趋势进行了计算分析。研究发现：①观测期内全国金融安全指数在整体上呈持续下行趋势,尤其是在2011-2012年二季度间出现了大幅下降;②四大经济区域的金融安全指数在2011-2015年一季度间均呈下行趋势,在2015年二季度至2019年三季度间相对稳定但一直处于低位。研究表明,观测期内我国整体及各区域的金融安全水平都出现了令人担忧的下降态势,四大经济区域的金融安全指数变化走势均不同且呈现出区域差异性。     

Solde Budgétaire,Croissance et Emploi en Côte d’Ivoire

Abstract: The objectives of the present paper were to determine how the fiscal balance, the level of employment and the economic growth evolved overtime in Côte d’Ivoire and to determine the direction of causality in the Granger sense between the fiscal balance, employment and growth. The data used for the study cover the period from 1976 to 2002. The empirical results suggest high positive correlation between the FDI, employment and GDP variables. A positive but weak correlation is found between the fiscal balance and growth. There is no cointegration relation between growth and the fiscal balance as well as between this later variable and the employment variable. With respect to causality, the results suggest a unidirectional causality from the fiscal balance towards growth. These results call for caution in the implementation of economic policies that focus too much on the fiscal balance to pull growth.     

福建省农村金融发展与农村经济增长的相关性研究

基于金融发展与经济增长理论,本文运用协整分析和格兰杰检验方法,运用福建省1980—2007农村经济金融与农村经济的相关数据,对二者的关系及依存度进行了实证分析,实证结果表明福建农村金融发展对农村经济增长有一定的促进作用,因而本文建议当前应积极采取有效的政策措施促进农村金融发展,以加快福建的新农村建设步伐。