A New Database on the Structure and Development of the Financial Sector

By Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Ross Levine. 2000

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Linkages between Financial Deepening, Trade Openness and Economic Development: Causality Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (2009, methodology): “First, level data for the individual finance indicators used in the following principal component analysis is taken from the Financial Development and Structure Database of Beck et al. (2000) that mainly builds on World Bank and IMF data.”
Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable (2006, neutral): “Beck, Demirgüc-Kunt, and Levine (2000) Moral hazard index Indicator that measures generosity of design features of deposit insurance schemes calculated as the first principal component of the following design features: coinsurance, coverage of foreign currency and interbank deposits, membership,…”
Financial Development, Bank Efficiency and Economic Growth across the Mediterranean (2013, methodology): “Beck et al. (2000) argue that the channel of financial development to growth is through productivity growth and not through capital accumulation.”
Finance for renewable energy: an empirical analysis of developing and transition economies (2010, background): “All three financial variables are measured in current prices, and GDP is purchasing power parity (PPP) adjusted (see Beck et al., 2000 for more 10 Beck et al. (2000) provide a large financial structure dataset on the World Bank website.”
Collectivism and corruption in bank lending (2013, positive): “…(2) Hofstede’s (2001) cultural indices; (3) the World Development Indicators (World Bank, 2010), which we use to obtain proxies for a country’s level of economic development; and (4) Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine (2000), which we use to form country-level financial development variables.”
Cecchetti , Mohanty and Zampolli The real effects of debt The real effects of debt (2011, neutral): “32 We also experimented with other measures of financial depth, such as stock market capitalisation (as constructed by the World Bank; see Beck et al (2000) and Beck and Demirgüç-Kunt (2009)).”
Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya (2012, positive): “(1) FDi = + 1Populationi Exogenous determinants, based on Beck et al. + 2Population Densityi (2008) + 3Natural Resourcesi + 4Offshore Centeri + 5Per Capita Incomei Plausibly exogenous, Financial development + 6Population*GDP Per Capitai affects these variables at a lag, Beck et al.”