The Quality of Banking and Regional Growth

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Iftekhar Hasan

Fordham University ; Bank of Finland; University of Sydney

Michael Koetter

Halle Institute for Economic Research

Michael Wedow

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate Financial Stability and Supervision

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Date Written: 2007

Abstract

We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of financial development we use profit efficiency derived from stochastic frontier analysis. We show that more efficient banks spur regional growth while the typically used quantity measure of financial development is negligible. Also, our results suggest an additional channel through which better banking can spur growth: the interaction of more credit with efficient banks.

Keywords: Bank performance, regional growth, bank efficiency, Europe

JEL Classification: O47, O16, G21, O52

Suggested Citation

Hasan, Iftekhar and Koetter, Michael and Wedow, Michael, The Quality of Banking and Regional Growth (2007). Bundesbank Series 2 Discussion Paper No. 2007,10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2793996 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2793996

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Michael Wedow

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate Financial Stability and Supervision ( email )

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Germany

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