Finance-Growth Nexus and the P-Bias. Evidence from OECD Countries

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Recent empirical OECD studies provide new empirical evidence confirming that financial development is closely linked to economic growth in OECD countries. Using new dynamic panel regression techniques, these appraisals indicate that within the group of high income countries stock market size as a measure of financial advancement contributes significantly to overall economic activity. Applying the same advanced techniques, this paper questions this conclusion by showing that the findings of the OECD studies seem to be not only not robust with respect to adding new observations but also likely to be plagued by a severe price bias which belittles the information content of the used financial indicator (stock market capitalization). We provide evidence that anticipative price effects (i. e., expectations of future growth, reflected in current stock prices) may be driving the empirical relationship between stock market activities and economic growth in high income countries to a much larger extent than recent analyses of the finance-growth link for OECD countries indicate.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 223

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity ; Financial Economics: General ; Corporate Finance and Governance: General ; Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
• Thema: growth ; financial system ; stock market ; panel analysis ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Finanzsektor ; Finanzmarkt ; Panel ; OECD-Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hahn, Franz R.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
• (wo): Vienna
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/128761
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ