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Table 1 Literature review excluding Cameroon

From: Financial sector development and economic growth: evidence from Cameroon

Panel 1: Financial development and economic growth out of Cameroon

Authors

Country/Region

Methodology

Main findings

Fry (1988)

14 Asian developing countries

parametric and nonparametric estimation techniques

Positive impact

Ikhide (1993)

Selected African countries

Panel regression

Positive impact

Seck and ElNil (1993)

30 African countries

Multivariate panel regression technique

Positive impact

Luintel and Khan (1999)

90 countries

Multivariate Vector Auto Regressive model

double-causality link between the variables of each country

Christopoulos and Tsionas (2004)

10 countries

model of multivariate co-integration

Long-term causality

Beck et al. (2000)

74 developed and developing countries

transversal analysis, Generalised Method of Moments (GMMs)

Positive impact

Beck and Levine (2004)

40 countries

Generalised Method of Moments (GMMs)

Positive impact

Huran and Chun (2013)

89 countries(INDs, EMEs, ODCs)

Bayesian dynamic factor model

-Positive impact (INDs,EMEs)

-No Impact (ODCs)

Kar and Pentecost (2000)

Turkey

Granger causality, Co-intergration, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)

Unidirectional causality (Economic growth to Financial development)

Güryay et al. (2007)

Northern Cyprus

Ordinary Least Squares techniques

Positive impact (Insignificant)

Islam et al. (2004)

Bangladesh

Granger causality

Causal direction (economic growth to financial development)

Adusei (2013)

Ghana

- Cointergration

- FMOLS(Fully-Modified Ordinary Least Squares)

- Error correction

- GMM

-negative impact: Financial development undermines economic growth (Financial development is an anti-growth factor)

Levine and Zervos (1996)

49 countries

Cross-country regression analysis

Robust correlation (No relation of stock market volatility, capitalisation and international financial integration with economic performance)

Al-Malkawi et al. (2012)

United Arab Emirates

ARDL approach

They found that there existed a negative relationship between economic growth and development of financial sector and also bidirectional causality between economic growth and development of Financial sector.

Bloch and Tang (2003)

75 countries

Time-series analysis

They found that there existed no significant relationship between economic growth and development of financial sector.

King and Levine (1993)

80 countries

Contemporaneous regressions and sensitivity analyses

They determined a strong correlation between economic growth and development of financial sector.

Jeanneney et al. (2006)

China

Generalized method of moment system estimation

They reached the finding that development of financial sector affected Productivity growth positively.

Yıldırım et al. (2013)

Emerging European economies (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,Poland, Romania,Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine)

Asymmetric causality test based on stationary Toda-Yomamoto approach

They found that there was unidirectional causality from economic growth to development of financial sector.

Hakeem and Oluitan (2013)

24 sub-Saharan countries

Panel co-integration test, impulse-response and sensitivity analyses

They found there existed unidirectional causality from real output to development of financial sector.

De Gregorio and Guidotti (1995)

A large number of countries

panel data regressions with random effects

Negative impact (in Latin America)

Adu et al. (2013)

Ghana

autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL)

Negative impact (when broad money stock to GDP ratio is used as proxies of financial development)

Ujunwa and Salami (2010)

Nigeria

co-integration and error correction modelling technique

Negative impact (when stock market development is proxied by total value of shares traded)

Bernard and Austin (2011)

Nigeria

Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression techniques

Negative impact (when stock market development is proxied by market capitalization and value traded ratios)

Andersen and Tarp (2003)

74 countries

Panel GMM regression

No impact

Ram (1999)

95 countries

Multiple-growth regression model

No impact

  1. Source: Compiled by author