Too much finance?

Arcand, Jean-Luis, Berkes, Enrico & Panizza, Ugo.

Over the last three decades the US financial sector has grown six times faster than nominal GDP. This column argues that there comes a point when the financial sector has a negative effect on growth – that is, when credit to the private sector exceeds 110% of GDP. It shows that, of the advanced countries currently suffering in the fallout of the global crisis were all above this threshold.

Πηγή: Voxeu

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