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Financial dependence, global growth opportunities, and growth revisited

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  • Manganelli, Simone
  • Popov, Alexander

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We show that financial development has a non-monotonic effect on growth in the Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Fisman and Love (2007) sample. Beyond a threshold, financially dependent industries and industries facing good growth opportunities grow disproportionately more slowly.

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  • Manganelli, Simone & Popov, Alexander, 2013. "Financial dependence, global growth opportunities, and growth revisited," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 120(1), pages 123-125.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:120:y:2013:i:1:p:123-125
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.001
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    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets

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