Financial development and growth: Testing a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model via indirect inference

Raoukka, Katerina 2013. Financial development and growth: Testing a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model via indirect inference. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Macroeconomics research has made a quantum leap in the past decade in establishing a new workhorse model for open economy analysis. The unique characteristic of this literature is the introduction of the financial system in a dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model which is based on microfoundations. Its introduction in a DGE model is essential to explain empirical facts such as growth differences across countries. The aim of this thesis is to show whether the behavior of growth can be explained by financial development within a classical approach. The model's ability to explain growth by setting financial development as a causal factor is tested against the model's performance to explain growth via setting the human capital as a causal factor. The question proposed and answered in this thesis is the following: Can an increase in productivity be produced by a development in the financial system or in the educational system and if so, is growth determined by this increase in productivity? The empirical performance of DSGE models is under scrutiny by researchers. This thesis is introducing the reader to a fairly new and unfamiliar testing procedure; indirect inference which is fully explained and applied. The idea of the thesis is to provide a better identified model compared to the already established econometric models on the financial development and growth nexus. The procedure followed is firstly to set up a well-established microfounded model and then to connect it to the theory via an establishment of the time series properties of various macroeconomic variables. The results based on 10 sample countries indicate that setting financial development as a causal factor explains the data behavior of macroeconomic variables better than a model which considers human capital as a driver of economic growth. 1

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Funders:	ESRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 23:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/51251

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