Financial Sector Development and Sustainable Economic Growth in Regionally Co-Integrated Emerging Markets

Abstract

This paper presents new evidence of the relationship between financial market development (banking sector) and economic growth for a set of seven Middle East and North African economies over the period 1965–2002. We find evidence that in six of the seven countries, banking-sector development Granger causes increases in economic growth. However, in three of those six countries, economic growth also Granger causes banking development. Our co-integration analysis reveals that there is a stable long-run equilibrium relationship between banking-sector development and economic growth for all our countries. However, based on vector error-correction models, there is limited evidence that banking-sector development boosts economic growth in the short run.

Citation

Al-Khouri, R.S. (2007), "Financial Sector Development and Sustainable Economic Growth in Regionally Co-Integrated Emerging Markets", Hirschey, M., John, K. and Makhija, A.K. (Ed.) Issues in Corporate Governance and Finance (Advances in Financial Economics, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 345-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-3732(07)12013-2