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Insurance, Pensions, and Mutual Funds on Economic Growth

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Earlier studies examining the impact of insurance sector activity on economic growth have produced mixed and often inconclusive results. This study re-examines the growth effects of financial development by jointly analyzing life insurance premium volume, non-life insurance premium volume, insurance company assets, pension fund assets, and mutual fund assets. Using annual panel data for 33 developed and developing countries over the period 2000--2016, we apply a panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) framework employing the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) and Mean Group (MG) estimators. The results provide robust evidence of cointegration among the variables and indicate that insurance sector development and mutual fund assets have a positive, statistically significant impact on economic growth in both the short- and long-run. These findings highlight the importance of contractual savings institutions as key channels through which financial development supports long-term economic performance.

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  • Ramoutar, Richard. S, 2025. "Insurance, Pensions, and Mutual Funds on Economic Growth," MPRA Paper 127380, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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