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dc.contributor.authorApergis, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorChristou, C.
dc.contributor.authorMiller, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:02:03Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:02:03Z
dc.date.created2014-04-09T20:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationApergis, Nicholas and Christou, Christina and Miller, Stephen. 2012. Convergence Patterns in Financial Development: Evidence From Club Convergence. Empirical Economics. 43 (3): pp. 1011-1040.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7737
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00181-011-0522-8
dc.description.abstract

This article analyzes the degree of convergence of financial development for a panel of 50 countries. We apply the methodology of Phillips and Sul (Econometrica 75:1771–1855, 2007) to various indicators of financial development to assess the existence of convergence clubs. We consider ten alternative indicators of financial development that various researchers use to proxy for the degree of financial development in countries. Overall, the results do not support the hypothesis that all countries converge to a single equilibrium state in financial development. Nevertheless, strong evidence exists of club convergence. Countries demonstrate a high degree of convergence in the sense that in the majority of financial indexes they form only two or three convergence clubs, depending on the measure of financial development used. We also apply the Phillips and Sul method to two real variables, per capita output and fixed capital investment to GDP, and find strong evidence of five and four distinct convergence clubs, respectively. Finally, we compare the various convergence clubs associated with financial development indicators to those clubs for per capita output and fixed capital investment to GDP. We conclude that strong evidence supports the correspondence between the convergence clubs for financial development and those two real variables.

dc.publisherPhysica-Verlag GmbH und Co.
dc.subjectFinancial development
dc.subjectFinancial indicators
dc.subjectConvergence clustering approach
dc.subjectEconomic growth
dc.titleConvergence Patterns in Financial Development: Evidence From Club Convergence
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume43
dcterms.source.startPage1011
dcterms.source.endPage1040
dcterms.source.issn0377-7332
dcterms.source.titleEmpirical Economics
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