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Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?

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dc.creator Koetter, Michael
dc.creator Wedow, Michael
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:41Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:41Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19750
dc.identifier ppn:51147394X
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:bubdp2:4358
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19750
dc.description With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country comparisons suffer from the disadvantage that systematic differences between markedly different economies may drive the result that finance matters. To circumvent these two problems we examine the importance of the quality of banks' financial intermediation in the regions of one economy only : Germany. To approximate the quality of financial intermediation we use cost effciency estimates derived with stochastic frontier analysis. We find that the quantity of supplied credit is indeed insignificant when a measure of intermediation quality is included. In turn, the efficiency of intermediation is robust, also after excluding banks likely to operate in multiple regions and distinguishing between different banking pillars active in Germany.
dc.language eng
dc.relation Discussion Paper, Series 2: Banking and Financial Supervision 2006,02
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject R11
dc.subject G21
dc.subject O4
dc.subject G28
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Finance-growth nexus
dc.subject financial intermediation
dc.subject regional growth
dc.subject Finanzintermediär
dc.subject Wirtschaftswachstum
dc.subject Bank
dc.subject Geldschöpfung
dc.subject Dienstleistungsqualität
dc.subject Technische Effizienz
dc.subject Regionales Wachstum
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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