Do Efficient Banking Sectors Accelerate Economic Growth in Transition Countries

Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?

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Tuuli Koivu: Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?

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Banking in Transition Countries

Government Banking and Economic Growth in Iran

One of the measures taken by the 1979 Revolutionary Government of Iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. Since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...

Economic Freedom and Banking Stability in Selected Countries

This paper investigates the role of economic freedom in banking stability by using a panel data set for the period 1998-2013 in 43 selected countries. We turn our investigation to the effects of economic freedom on banking stability. The effects of economic freedom on financial stability are estimated. This paper calculates the z-score measure for banking stability. The findings from this study ...