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Alananga, S., & Mutasa, F. (2022). Does proximity matter? The effect of financial sector development on economic growth in the EAC and SADC regional blocs. Journal of International Economics and Management, 22(3), 19-45. https://doi.org/10.38203/jiem.022.3.0052
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Does proximity matter? The effect of financial sector development on economic growth in the EAC and SADC regional blocs
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This study examines the finance-growth nexus among countries in the Southern African Development Community and East Africa Community regional blocs. We aim to see if small economies can rely on expansionary monetary policies to stimulate economic growth given the illusive nature of such policies. The panel error correction model is applied to analyze the aggregated data, which were obtained from the World Development Indicators and the Comité Européen d'Etudes des Polyphosphates. The results indicate that proximity to trading giants jeopardizes the freedom to use monetary expansionary policies among relatively small countries. If such policies are adopted, it will be a significant impact on countries located in regions where trading powers are evenly distributed.
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Geographic proximity, Money, Financial sector development, Domestic credit, Centrality
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Ezzahid, E. and Elouaourti, Z. (2017), “Financial development and total factors productivity channel: evidence from Africa”, MPRA Working Paper No. 81764 .
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Gallup, J.L. and Sachs, J.D. (2001), “The economic burden of malaria”, The Supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Vol. 64 No. 1, pp. 85 - 96.
Garru, J.A. and Peter, A. (2016), “Financial deepening and economic growth nexus in Nigeria (1981-2014): a causality analysis”, Lafia Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 84 - 97.
Gnangnon, S.K. (2021), “Services export diversification and services export revenue stability: does trade openness matter?”, International Trade, Politics and Development, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 90 - 113.
Harris, C.D. (1954), “The market as a factor in the localization of industry in the United States”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 44 No. 4, pp. 315 - 348.
Hinz, J. (2012), “The economic geography of Europe and the role of regional policy, economies and finances”, Available at https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00802143 (Accessed 21 November, 2022).
Honohan, P. (2005), “Measuring microfinance access: building on existing cross-country data”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3606.
Hummels, D. (2007), “Transportation costs and international trade in the second era of globalization”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 131 - 154.
Ibrahim, M. (2017), Studies on financial development and economic growth in Sub–Saharan Africa, Wits Business School, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand.
Landes, D.S. (1998), The wealth and poverty of nations: why some countries are so rich and some so poor, W.W. Norton, New York.
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Levine, R. (1997), “Financial development and economic growth: views and agenda”, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 35 No. 2, pp. 688 - 726.
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Mahawiya, S. (2015), Foreign banking inflows, financial sector development and economic growth in ECOWAS and SADC, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
McCann, P. and Oort, F.V. (2019), “Theories of agglomeration and regional economic growth: a historical review”, in Capello, R. and Nijkamp, P. (Eds.), Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, pp. 6 - 23.
Minerva, A.G. and Ottaviano, G.I. (2009), “Endogenous growth theories: agglomeration benefits and transportation costs”, in Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin & Cornwall.
Mossig, I., Windzio, M., Besche-Truthe, F. and Seitzer, H. (2022), “Networks of global social policy diffusion: the effects of culture, economy, colonial legacies, and geographic proximity”, in Windzio, M., Mossig, I., Besche-Truthe, F. and Seitzer, H. (Eds.), Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion: Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies, pp. 1 - 37.
Nsiah, C., Fayissa, B. and Wu, C. (2016), “Spatial effect on the rate of economic growth: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa”, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 50 No. 1, pp. 275 - 288.
Ottaviano, G. and Pinelli, D. (2006), “Market potential and productivity: evidence from Finnish regions”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 636 - 657.
Pagano, M. (1993), “Financial markets and growth: an overview”, European Economic Review, Vol. 37 No. 2-3, pp. 613 - 622.
Pesaran, H., Shin, Y. and Smith, R. (1999), “Pooled Mean Group estimation and dynamic heterogeneous panels”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 94 No. 446, pp. 621 - 634.
Pirotte, A. (1999), “Convergence of the static estimation toward the long-run effects of dynamic panel data models”, Economics Letters, Vol. 63 No. 2, pp. 151 - 158.
Redding, S. and Scott, P.K. (2003), “Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich?”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 72 No. 2. pp. 515 - 541.
Redding, S. and Venables, A.J. (2004), “Economic geography and international inequality”, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 62 No. 1, pp. 53 - 82.
Schumpeter, J. (1911), The theory of economic development, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Shabani, Z.D., Akbari, N. and Esfahani, R.D. (2011), “Effect of population density, division and distance on regional economic growth”, Iranian Economic Review, Vol. 16 No. 31, pp. 101 - 121.
Sissoko, Y., Sloboda, B.W. and Kone, S. (2018), “Is it factor accumulation or total factor productivity explaining the economic growth in ECOWAS? An empirical assessment”, African Journal of Economic Review, Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 30 - 45.
World Bank. (2009), World development report: reshapimg economic geographic, World Bank Press, Washington, D.C.
Yue, L., Huang, C. and Cao, Y. (2022), “The impact of FDI technology spillover on the innovation quality of Chinese enterprises: a microperspective based on geographic proximity”, European Journal of Innovation Management, Ahead-of-Print.
Zerbo, E. (2015), “What determines the long-run growth in sub-Saharan Africa? Exploring the role of energy, trade openness and financial development in six countries”, Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management Nantes-Atlantique, Université de Nantes Working Paper 2015/28.