Stock markets, banks and economic growth

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Risk Sharing, SMEs’ Financial Strategy, and Lending Guarantee Technology

Several governments use the Credit Guarantee Schemes to ease SMEs’ access to funding and support their growth and survival. This paper suggests a lending guarantee technology based on risk sharing through a de facto shareholding agreement to cover potential losses and reduce the premature default risk. The simulation of a typical entrepreneurial experiment shows that the key SMEs dynamics (value creation, profitability, risk, leverage, and equity multiplier, among others) and other related financial additionality and sustainability indicators are substantially improved. The ideal financial strategy for the SMEs’ entrepreneurs is to keep lower levels of the equity multiplier to transmit positive signals to the market, which improves the business prospects and related creditworthiness. The results indicate that risk sharing alleviates the financiers’ reluctance to increase the SMEs funding and improve their risk management systems

Risk Sharing, SMEs’ Financial Strategy, and Lending Guarantee Technology

Several governments use the Credit Guarantee Schemes to ease SMEs’ access to funding and support their growth and survival. This paper suggests a lending guarantee technology based on risk sharing through a de facto shareholding agreement to cover potential losses and reduce the premature default risk. The simulation of a typical entrepreneurial experiment shows that the key SMEs dynamics (value creation, profitability, risk, leverage, and equity multiplier, among others) and other related financial additionality and sustainability indicators are substantially improved. The ideal financial strategy for the SMEs’ entrepreneurs is to keep lower levels of the equity multiplier to transmit positive signals to the market, which improves the business prospects and related creditworthiness. The results indicate that risk sharing alleviates the financiers’ reluctance to increase the SMEs funding and improve their risk management systems

Evidence on growth and financial development using principal components

In the literature on the growth-financial development relationship, many different measures of financial development have been suggested. These are generally highly correlated and are frequently subject to measurement error. In this article, principal components are used as a means of measuring financial development. Using panel data for 30 developing countries on 10 measures of financial development, the properties of the principal components are discussed and their relationships with growth are examined. Estimation by the general method of moments suggests that principal components have a useful role in examining the links between growth and financial development.

The roles of digitalization and knowledge sharing in French company’s performance: the mediating role of CSR

International audienceThe purpose of this study is to examine the impact of digitalization (DG) and knowledge sharing (KS) on the financial performance (FP) of French companies, with a focus on the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR). A survey was conducted among a sample of French companies, and the data was analyzed using structural equation modeling PLS. The results of the study indicate that DG and KS have not a positive impact on the FP of French companies. Furthermore, CSR completely mediates the relationship between DG and FP. These findings suggest that French companies should focus on improving their digital capabilities and promoting KS among employees, while also paying attention to their CSR activities, in order to enhance their FP

Does financial development affect growth?

This article contributes to the literature on the relationship between financial development and economic growth in three ways: it utilizes recently developed techniques for generalized methods of moments (GMM) one-step estimation with dynamic panel models, it focuses exclusively on a sample of developing countries and it uses as proxies for financial development variables which capture both banking sector and stock market effects. The results provide evidence, based on a panel of annual data for 30 developing countries, that while the stock market variables are positively and significantly related to growth, their presence results in the standard banking sector variables, credit to the private sector and liquid liabilities, having negative effects on growth.

Heterogeneous Patterns of Financial Development: Implications for Asian Financial Integration

This paper analyzes detailed differences in patterns of financial development across the major Asian economies, including three of the region’s largest economies (China, Japan and South Korea), to understand how these differences might affect possibilities for greater regional financial integration. In particular, the paper argues that heterogeneous patterns of financial development, and not just differences in levels of financial development, may present an economic challenge to regional financial integration efforts, aside from possible political challenges. The paper provides background on the case for financial openness, Asian experiences with financial integration, and regional economic responses to external shocks. It also discusses policy options, including regulatory reform and coordination, and possible risk management policies and institutions, in the context of heterogeneous patterns of financial development