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The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence*

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Aghion, Philippe, Howitt, Peter, Mayer-Foulkes, David·2005·Quarterly Journal of Economics

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We introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multicountry Schumpeterian growth model. The theory predicts that any country with more than some critical level of financial development will converge to the growth rate of the world technology frontier, and that all other countries will have a strictly lower long-run growth rate. We present evidence supporting these and other implications, in the form of a cross-country growth regression with a significant and sizable negative coefficient on initial per-capita GDP (relative to the United States) interacted with financial intermediation. In addition, we find that other variables representing schooling, geography, health, policy, politics, and institutions do not affect the significance of the interaction between financial intermediation and initial per capita GDP, and do not show any independent effect on convergence in the regressions. Our findings are robust to removal of outliers and to alternative conditioning sets, estimation procedures, and measures of financial development.

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Authors
Aghion, P., Howitt, P., & Mayer-Foulkes, D.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Brown University (US)
Venue
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Published
2005-02
Volume
120
Issue
1
Pages
173-222
ISSN
  • 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-4650
OpenAlex
W2133207356
Cited by
962
References
115
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FWCI
109.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Development
Keywords
financial development, economic convergence, Schumpeterian growth, technology transfer, financial intermediation, cross-country growth

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