| FinanceGrowth {pder} | R Documentation |
Financial Institutions and Growth
Description
5-yearly observations of 78 countries from 1960 to 1995
number of observations : 546
number of time-series : 7
country : world
package : panel
JEL codes: G20, O16, O47, C23, C33, O15
Chapter : 07
Usage
data(FinanceGrowth)Format
A dataframe containing:
- country
country name
- period
period
- growth
growth rate * 100
- privo
log private credit / GDP
- lly
log liquid liabilities / GDP
- btot
log bank credit/total credit
- lgdp
log initial gdp per capita (PPP)
- sec
mean years of secondary schooling
- gov
log government spending / GDP
- lbmp
log(1 black market premium)
- lpi
log(1 + inflation rate)
- trade
log (imports + exports)/GDP
Source
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14256
References
Levine, Ross; Loayza, Norman and Thorsten Beck (2000) “Financial Intermediation and Growth: Causality and Causes”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 46, 31-77, doi: 10.1016/S0304-3932(00)00017-9 .
Roodman, David (2009) “A Note on the Theme of Two Many Instruments”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics An Statistics, 71(1), 135–158, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2008.00542.x .