Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2015.1084476
The role of the financial sector in the UK economy: evidence from a seasonal cointegration analysis
Sami Fethi
Salih Katircioglu
Abstract
This article empirically investigates the relationship between stock market/banking sector development and economic growth by controlling for the effects of human and physical capital factors in a seasonal cointegration framework. We use a sample of quarterly and seasonally unadjusted data which covers the period 1965Q1– 2011Q4. The results suggest that: (1) the UK financial sector development is a good promoter of the domestic economy both in the long- and the short-run; (2) the supply- leading hypothesis that causality runs from stock market capitalisation and stock market volatility to real GDP per worker is confirmed; (3) stock market volatility has a negative influence on the UK’s output, which may reflect economic ambiguity but may also reflect a well-functioning and efficient stock market; (4) if a country has a good infrastructure and a well-educated nation, it enhances economic growth as well as betters the financial sector (i.e. markets and banks); and (5) if a new global financial meltdown is formed, this can easily devastate the UK economy.
Keywords
financial development; economic growth; seasonal cointegration; causality; the UK economy
Hrčak ID:
171556
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Publication date:
20.12.2015.
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