The first part of this paper reviews the literature on the relation between finance and growth.
The second part of the paper reviews the literature on the historical and policy determinants …

Using a firm-level survey database covering 48 countries, we investigate how financial and
institutional development affects financing of large and small firms. Our database is not …

Using data from 286 Chinese cities over the period 2001–2006, this paper investigates the
relationship between financial development and economic growth at the city level in China …

Outline of this report 4 Main messages of this report 17 1.1 Access to finance vs. use:
voluntary and involuntary exclusion 29 1.2 Access to finance: supply vs. demand constraints …

Using a panel of 79,841 Chinese firms over the period 2000–2007, we examine the extent to
which liquidity constraints affect firms' assets growth. We find that state owned enterprises …

We provide a firm-level analysis of the relation between corruption and growth for private
firms and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Vietnam. We obtain three different measures of …

This book provides a compendium to the empirical work investigating the hypotheses
generated by recent banking theory. Such a compendium is overdue. Since the publication …

With extensive cross-country datasets and India firm samples, as well as our own surveys of
small and medium firms, we examine the legal and business environments, financing …

Recent data compilations show that many poor and nonpoor people in many developing
countries face a high degree of financial exclusion and high barriers in access to finance …

Using a unique and rich database of high-technology firms in China, we show that effective
enforcement of intellectual property rights at the provincial level is critical in encouraging …