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Financial Development and TFP Growth: Cross-Country and Industry-Level Evidence

Serie

  • Research Department Publications

Resumen

  • This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using a largely unexploited panel of 77 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries for the years 1963 to 2003. A significant relationship is found between financial development and industry-level TFP growth when controlling for country-time and industry-time fixed effects. The results are both statistically and economically significant. TFP growth can accelerate up to 0.6 percent per year, depending on the external finance requirement of industries, following a one standard deviation increase in financial development. The results are robust to different samples and specifications.

fecha de publicación

  • 2009-06

Líneas de investigación

  • Financial Development
  • TFP Growth
  • Volatility

Issue

  • 4630