Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82396 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 69
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
We report evidence that the relation between the financial sector share, private savings and growth in the United States 1948-1996 is characterized by several regime shifts. The finding is based on vector autoregressions on quarterly data that allow for Markov switching regimes. The evidence may be interpreted as support for a hypothesis that the relation between financial development and growth evolves in a stepwise fashion. Theoretical models where financial market extensions entail fixed costs imply such stepwise patterns. The estimated variable relations are roughly consistent with the patterns to be expected from such models, although our data do not admit definite conclusions. The timing of the shifts coincides with regulatory changes and changes in the financial market structure.
Subjects: 
Financial development
Growth
Markov switching
Savings
Vector autoregression
JEL: 
C32
E44
O16
O51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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