The Fading Link? A New Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Growth

This paper contributes to the literature on the finance-growth link by presenting new findings based on a new, larger dataset that improves over earlier studies in its greater coverage in terms of time periods and countries, as well as the incorporation of additional control variables like institutional quality and the size of the economy. Our results demonstrate that financial development does not have a statistically significant effect on economic growth. We also find that the economy’s size is a statistically significant determinant of growth.