Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia

This paper examines the finance-growth nexus in Russia with the vector autoregression model, taking oil prices and foreign exchange rates into account. The analyzed period is from 1999 through 2008 (Subperiod 1) and from 2009 through 2014 (Subperiod 2). The results for Subperiod 1 suggest that there...

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Main Author: Shigeki Ono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Voprosy Ekonomiki 2017-09-01
Series:Russian Journal of Economics
Subjects:
VAR
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405473917300430
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spelling doaj-ca533916bb474ac684ef6e72454a3f312020-11-24T22:09:13ZengVoprosy EkonomikiRussian Journal of Economics2405-47392017-09-013332133210.1016/j.ruje.2017.09.006Financial development and economic growth nexus in RussiaShigeki OnoThis paper examines the finance-growth nexus in Russia with the vector autoregression model, taking oil prices and foreign exchange rates into account. The analyzed period is from 1999 through 2008 (Subperiod 1) and from 2009 through 2014 (Subperiod 2). The results for Subperiod 1 suggest that there is causality from economic growth to money supply and bank lending, which implies demand-following responses. The results for Subperiod 2 show that economic growth Granger causes bank lending while there is no causality from money supply to economic growth, which could be related to the dramatic decrease in the amount of intervention in foreign exchange markets.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405473917300430financial developmenteconomic growthcausalityVARRussia
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author Shigeki Ono
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Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
Russian Journal of Economics
financial development
economic growth
causality
VAR
Russia
author_facet Shigeki Ono
author_sort Shigeki Ono
title Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
title_short Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
title_full Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
title_fullStr Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
title_full_unstemmed Financial development and economic growth nexus in Russia
title_sort financial development and economic growth nexus in russia
publisher Voprosy Ekonomiki
series Russian Journal of Economics
issn 2405-4739
publishDate 2017-09-01
description This paper examines the finance-growth nexus in Russia with the vector autoregression model, taking oil prices and foreign exchange rates into account. The analyzed period is from 1999 through 2008 (Subperiod 1) and from 2009 through 2014 (Subperiod 2). The results for Subperiod 1 suggest that there is causality from economic growth to money supply and bank lending, which implies demand-following responses. The results for Subperiod 2 show that economic growth Granger causes bank lending while there is no causality from money supply to economic growth, which could be related to the dramatic decrease in the amount of intervention in foreign exchange markets.
topic financial development
economic growth
causality
VAR
Russia
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405473917300430
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