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Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening: A Political Institutionsview

By Marc G Quintyn, Genevieve Verdier

September 1, 2010

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Marc G Quintyn, and Genevieve Verdier. Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening: A Political Institutionsview, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

Only a minority of countries have succeeded in establishing a developed financial system, despite widespread financial liberalization. Confronted with this finding, the political institutions view claims that sustained financial deepening is most likely to take place in institutional environments where governments effectively impose constraints on their own powers in order to create trust. This paper identifies over 200 post-1960 episodes of accelerations in financial development in a large cross-section of countries. We find that the likelihood of an acceleration leading to sustained financial development increases greatly in environments that have high-quality political institutions.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Credit booms, Financial crises, Financial markets, Financial sector development, Legal support in revenue administration, Money, Revenue administration

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Credit, Credit booms, Eastern Europe, Financial development, Financial liberalization, Financial sector development, GDP t-1, Growth rate, Legal support in revenue administration, Liberalization index, Moving average, Political institutions, Post-acceleration Credit, Regime change, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Hemisphere, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/210

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010210

  • ISBN:

    9781455205417

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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