Financial Development, Institutional Investors, and Economic Growth

2018. International Review of Economics and Finance . VOl. 54. Pp 218 - 224

Jose Ruiz V

Abstract:

This study analyzes the nonlinear relationship between financial development under the presence of institutional investors (assets in insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds, as a percentage of GDP) and economic growth. The analysis considers data on 116 economies obtained from the World Bank for the period 1991–2014. We examine both industrialized and developing economies using a dynamic panel threshold technique. We find that countries below the finance threshold grow less and those above the threshold grow faster. In addition, in the industrialized economies, institutional investors have a positive effect on the growth of GDP per capita.

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