"government ownership of banks has been robustly associated with higher long-run growth rates"

"We present new cross-country evidence that reveals that during
1995–2007, government ownership of banks has been robustly associated
with higher long-run growth rates. We also show that previous results
suggesting that government ownership of banks is associated with lower
long-run growth rates are not robust to conditioning on more
‘fundamental’ determinants of economic growth."
 (Svetlana Andrianova1, Panicos Demetriades1, Anja Shortland2, Economica, latest issue)

posted by Dirk J. Bezemer
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