Financial Development and Pre-historic Geographical Isolation: Global Evidence

Oasis Kodila-Tedika, Simplice Asongu, Matthias Cinyabuguma () and Vanessa Tchamyou ()
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Matthias Cinyabuguma: The World Bank Group

No 17/041, Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. from African Governance and Development Institute.

Abstract: Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographic isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that pre-historic geographical isolation has been beneficial to development because it has contributed to contemporary cross-country differences in financial intermediary development. The relationship is robust to alternative samples, different estimation techniques, outliers and varying conditioning information sets. The established positive relationship between geographic isolation and financial intermediary development does not significantly extend to stock market development.

Keywords: Financial development; Isolation; Agglomeration; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 G15 N7 O16 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2017-01
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