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A Theory of Growth, Financial Development and Trade
Author(s) -
Blackburn Keith,
Hung Victor T. Y.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
economica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.532
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1468-0335
pISSN - 0013-0427
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0335.00116
Subject(s) - financial intermediary , delegate , loan , economics , liberalization , finance , financial system , incentive , indirect finance , international economics , business , market economy , computer science , programming language
This paper presents an analysis of the joint determination of real and financial development. Privately informed designers obtain external finance for their research projects through incentive‐compatible loan contracts. Contracts are enforced through costly monitoring activity which lenders may either undertake themselves, or delegate to a financial intermediary. The analysis establishes a positive, two‐way causal relationship between growth and financial development. In addition, using a multi‐country version of the model, it is shown how both financial and trade liberalization can accelerate the development of intermediation; only trade liberalization has a direct positive effect on growth, however.