Finance, entrepreneurship and growth

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I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

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Financial Development and Economic Growth: The Case of Pakistan

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Non‐linear finance–growth nexus: <i>A threshold with instrumental variable approach</i>¹

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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Developing Asia

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Financial intermediation and economic growth: Does income matter?

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Nexus between financial innovation and economic growth in South Asia: evidence from ARDL and nonlinear ARDL approaches

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What matters for finance‐growth nexus? A critical survey of macroeconomic stability, institutions, financial and economic development

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Financial development and economic growth: global and African evidence

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Finance, Growth, and Inequality

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Regional determinants of poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship in China

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Financial Markets and Economic Development in Africa

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Finance-growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa

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Diversity Matters in the World of Finance: Does Ethnic and Religious Diversity Hinder Financial Development in Developing Countries?

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Critical Reflections on Different Trends in the Relationship between Financial Developments and Economic Growth in China

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Does banking diversity matter on the financial development–entrepreneurship nexus? Evidence from developed and developing countries

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Effects of stock market development on economic growth in ECOWAS: does institutional quality matter?

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