Beneath the Finance–Growth Nexus: The Case of Japan’s Post-World War II Commercial Banking
Autor: | Kei-Ichiro Inaba |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Macroeconomics
Economics and Econometrics 050208 finance Sociology and Political Science Status quo media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Economic rent Financial system Market liquidity Corporate finance Loan 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Economics Profitability index 050207 economics Nexus (standard) Direct finance media_common |
Zdroj: | Journal of Comparative Asian Development. 15:19-63 |
ISSN: | 2150-5403 1533-9114 |
DOI: | 10.1080/15339114.2016.1153977 |
Popis: | For most of the post-World War II period, Japan’s finance–growth nexus did not benefit greatly from the information-producing and monitoring activities of commercial banks. This contradicts the famous Main Bank thesis. Regulations on direct finance and competitive restrictions on banking effectively liberated the banks from having to develop their informational activities. These institutional factors also enabled the banks to extract regulatory and informational rents from client companies. Bank regulators were motivated to stick to the status quo without reforming such commercial banks. On an aggregate basis over the period 1965–96, corporate profitability negatively correlated with bank loan dependency, and liquidity constraints impacted on corporate finance. |
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