Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128559 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 440
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
We construct an index of financial development for 23 Asian economies based on subindices of access, depth, and efficiency of financial institutions and markets and find evidence that economies with weaker financial systems are catching up to the Asian benchmark economies, namely Hong Kong, China; Japan; the Republic of Korea; and Singapore. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, aggregate GDP, and mobile subscriptions all increase the growth rate of financial development in Asian economies while institutional factors have insignificant or ambiguous effects. We also evaluate the relative importance of the subindices in delivering high economic growth, low volatility, and greater financial access.
Subjects: 
Asian economies
convergence to benchmark
financial development
index construction
JEL: 
C82
G01
G02
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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