The effects of volatility on growth and financial development through capital market imperfections

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2007-6-1

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Aysan , Ahmet Faruk

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This paper provides a model to account for the empirical evidence that volatility reduces growth. In the model, greater volatility increases the cost associated with capital market imperfections and induces the financial intermediaries to charge higher interest rates. The model is based on one of overlapping generations with two types of technologies. The more productive technology requires fixed investment in the first period. Individual with income less than the amount of fixed investment may borrow in financial markets to obtain more productive technology. Increase in volatility raises the cost of borrowing and makes it less attractive to invest in more productive technology for individuals whose first period income is below certain income. Hence, volatility reduces growth by deterring people from taking advantage of more productive technology. This model also explains the empirical findings of Ramey and Ramey (1995) that investment is not the channel between volatility and growth by suggesting that total factor productivity rather than total factor accumulation is the key for growth.

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Volatility, Growth, Financial development, Capital market imperfections, Costly state verification, Limited enforceability of contracts

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http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/149
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58497

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ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi

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Department of Economics, Article

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A. F. Aysan, “The effects of volatility on growth and financial development through capital market imperfections,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1–18, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/149.