The Maturity Structure of Bank Credit: Determinants and Effects on Economic Growth
Preprint
- 1 April 2008
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We investigate a new data set on the maturity of bank credit to the private sector in 74 countries. We show that credit maturity is longer in countries with strong institutions, low inflation, large financial markets, and where banks share information about borrowers. Furthermore, we extend the finance and growth literature by showing that credit maturity matters for economic growth. Economic growth is enhanced in countries where agents have access to long-term financing. Therefore, weak institutions, high inflation and other variables that reduce credit maturity have an impact on economic growth via their influence on credit maturity. The estimated effects are substantial in size.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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