Since the late 1980s, most developing countries adopt a policy of attracting investments for Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) projects. With a perspective of sustainability, this paper offers a first attempt to examine whether the sustainable PPI investments promote financial market development. First, we demonstrate how the PPI policy enlargers the size of financial markets and th...

This paper analyzes the effects of financial market globalization on the crosscountry pattern of development in the world economy. To this end, it develops a dynamic macroeconomic model of imperfect credit markets, in which the domestic investment becomes borrowing-constrained at the lower stage of development. In the absence of the international financial market, the world economy converges to...

In this paper, we formalize the view that economic development requires high rates of productive entrepreneurship, and this requires an efficient matching between entrepreneurial talent and production technologies. We first explore the role of financial development in promoting such efficient allocation of talent, which results in higher production, job creation and social mobility. We then sho...

The immeasurable potential productivity and high-growth characters contained in Internet Economy attract financial industry to develop internet financial service promptly, which will be mainstream tendency in this century. It has changed the function of traditional financial company and the structure of financial organization. Electronic money has also made the central bank loss the money suppl...

This paper examines the extent to which financial development and financial structure may explain cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990–2003, it finds that credit and stock market development tends to foster ICT diffusion, but financial structure does not appear to have any significant r...

Recent years have witnessed important structural changes around the world as a result of the globalization process, the creation of new economic blocks and the liberalization of financial sector in many countries. Responding to these changes many sectors of the industrialized countries have gone through major deregulatory changes to acclimate themselves to new environments. At the same time, ma...

This paper considers three questions: (1) what is the role of financial markets in development, (2) why do some economies have such poorly developed financial markets, and (3) can government policy be used to promote financial market development? With respect to the first question, we formalize the widely-held notion that financial markets promote entrepreneurship, specialization, and learning-...

This paper provides two potential explanations for the persistence of zeros in bilateral trade data. The theory predicts that (1) the existence of a fixed entry cost can generate a lower effect of financial development on the creation of new bilateral trade relationships, and that (2) the effect of financial development can be lower in countries with a low initial development of the local finan...

We examine the role of financial development in economic growth in the former Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States during the first two decades since the beginning of transition. These countries, which had undeveloped financial systems under Communism, provide an interesting test of the relationship between financial development and growth...