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Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs

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To address how technological progress in financial intermediation affects the economy, a costly-state verification framework is embedded into the standard growth model. The framework has two novel ingredients. First, firms differ in the risk/return combinations that they offer. Second, the efficacy of monitoring depends upon the amount of resources invested in the activity. A financial theory of firm size results. Undeserving firms are over financed, deserving ones under funded. Technological advance in intermediation leads to more capital accumulation and a redirection of funds away from unproductive firms toward productive ones. With continued progress, the economy approaches its first-best equilibrium. An extended version of the paper containing some quantitative analysis is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=996263

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Length: 60 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2007
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Handle: RePEc:eag:rereps:14
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Keywords: financial intermediation; economic development; costly state verification; firm size;

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  • E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical
  • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
  • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

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