DOES FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT LEADS ECONOMIC GROWTH? EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING ASIAN MARKETS

Hamna Nasir 1+ --- Sadaf Majeed2 --- Abdul Aleem3

1,3PhD Students at Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, Pakistan

2Research Associate at Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

The essential interlocks connecting financial development and economic growth improves financial progress and reduces transicition, knowledge and monitoring cost of financial business. The target of this manuscript is to assess the premise that “financial development leads economic growth”. The analysis is conducted by employing Time series information for three emerging Asian states; Korea, Philippines and Thailand. Information is obtained from WDI for the era of 1976-2015. Unit root test, Cointegration test, forecast variance decomposition and impulse response function analysis are employed to investigate correlations among variables in the Vector Auto Regression (VAR) structure and, consequently, varies from the further standard Granger causality approach. The analysis provides the support to the hypothesis for Korea and Thailand that “financial development leads to economic growth”. Financial development is not only a causative factor, but indeed, the main significant feature of economic growth. The financial sector gives benefit for the economic development as credit to non public sector to GDP ratio series are employed as the financial development indicator.

Keywords: Financial development, Economic growth, Time Series, Vector auto regression, Ganger causality, Impulse response function, Forecast error variance Decomposition.

ARTICLE HISTORY: Received:4 April 2018. Revised:26 April 2018. Accepted:30 April 2018. Published:: 2 May 2018 .

Contribution/ Originality:This study is one of the few studies which have found that whether financial development lead economic growth in emerging markets. This study first contributes to the hypothesis that financial development leads to economic growth by using selected Asian emerging markets of Korea, Thailand and Phillipines. Globally, these countries are growing fast economically. However, this study documents that financial sector development has a key role to promote economic activities in these countries.

1. INTRODUCTION

Economists have defined “economic growth as the increase in the per capita gross domestic product or a rise in other measures of aggregate income”. In a modern financial system economic growth is pivoted by a proficient financial sector that pools native reserves and mobilizes overseas capital for prolific investment. The appraisal of the correlation connecting financial development and economic growth can be accomplished from different perceptual experiences. The essential interlocks connecting financial development and economic growth, improves financial progress and reduce commercial undertaking, knowledge and monitoring matters of financial business.A well executed financial market can smooth the progress of higher reserves and asset. The improved performing financial sector permits an economic system to allocate resources proficiently and enhance the gross domestic output. The basic conjecture that interlocks financial development with economic growthis based on the proposal to facilitate the earlier reduces transaction, information and monitoring cost and performance of other pivotal functions enhance reserves, investment and national production. So, the universal concurrence is that an enhanced performing financial sector enables an economic system to allocate resources efficiently and increase the gross domestic output.

There is an esteemed convention in commerce with the complexity of financial developmentand economic growth. Fifty years on, development finance again engages an essential situation in development economics research and performance. Flourishement of financial liberalization in semi 1980s and commencement of 1990s and a rush of investment inflows of numerous blossoming states were followed by financial disaster in Latin America and East Asia. These incidents have endorsed apparent probing awareness of the use of fiscal intermediary in economic growth, and a review of the planning preferences for guaranteeing that the financial sector’s involvement in economic growth and development is completely recognized. The early work on finance and development to where we are now, however, is not a straight one.

Financial sector crucially compiles of business which are a mediator between economic entities with excess treasury and economic entities with endowment arrears. The financial mediator and financial gadgets have established considerably the correspondence with industrial advancement and economic development over era. Furthermore it facilitates economic modules to circumvent beside diversified perils and to bland their intertemporal disbursements. Consequently, the financial sector has become an essential part of economies over time. However, economic progress depends on the standard of the nations whose financial sector varies remarkably. Usually Nations with strong economic progress have leading financial development. In current three decades majority of the Emerging Asian nations are among the rapid developing countries of the globe and they experienced significant economic growth rates, except at the time of 1997 Asian plight and the worldwide financial plight 2007-08. Prematurely in 1990s their financial sector also has broadened through the economic proliferation.

In the past decades the consequence of well-functioning financial organizations in economic evolution has been substantially conferred in the literature. Abdellhafidh (2013) scrutinizes the path of causation connecting finance and growth in North African states over the era 1970-2008. He differentiated among native reserves and overseas inflows, but also disaggregated the earlier into endowments, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), assortment asset and credence. Trivariate VAR representations have been utilized to extricate the direct and indirect consequence of financial development on economic growth. The consequence reveals that economic growth Granger-causes  native reserves. Bader and Qarn (2008) scrutinize the contributory correlation between financial development and economic growth in Egypt during the era 1960-2001 by employing a trivariate VAR structure. The manuscript manipulates four varied estimates of financial development (ratio of money to GDP, ratio of M2 minus currency to GDP, ratio of bank credit to the private sector to GDP, and the ratio of credit issued to private sector to total domestic credit). They suggested that there is two way causation. Additionally, they established the consequences of financial developmenton economic growthmutually through asset as well as efficacy.

Shan and Morris (2002) estimated VAR and Granger causality for OECD and Asian states. They establish the two way causation connecting finance and growthin numerous states and the one-way causality from growth to financein further states. Shan (2005) used Quarterly time-series information from 1985 to 1998 for ten OECD states and China. He designed VAR representations to estimate the postulate that “financial development ‘leads’ economic growth” and found weak support of the postulate. Luitel and Khan (1999) estimated VAR utilizing samples of 10 nations and established two way causation between financial development and economic growth.

Beck et al. (2004) looked at the association among stock markets, depositories and economic development by executing OLS and GMMevaluation for dynamic panels of 40 nations with 146 observations for the era of 1976-1998. Stock markets as well as depositories have constructive dominance on economic expansion. La Porta and Lopez (2002) applied the scale of communal sector possession of depositories in the vicinity of  globe as a different financial sector appraisal and they determine that a significant amount of common wealth possession is unconstructively connected with financial organization expansion and economic progress. Arestis and Demetriades (2001) implemented the time series investigation for five metropolitan economies for the era of 1972 to 1998 and established that the consequences of the depository-based financial strategies are more dominant than the capital-market-based counterparts in propping up long-term growth. Ghali (1999) investigated for the nation studies; the query about whether finance contributes to financially viable escalation in Tunisia. The manuscript has employed two gauges of financial development, the share of reservoir installment accountabilities to gross domestic production and the proportion of depository states in the non public sectors to nominal GDP. The vigorous association between finance as well as growth has been scrutinized by employing the Granger-causalityanalysis and the outcomes specify the existence of a lasting steady association linking sfinancial developmentand per capita real productivity where the inductment  runs from financeto growth.

Gill (2012) squabbled that the economic and business relationship of Emerging Europe state has been assimilated not only to the Western European economies but to the remaining economies of the world. The financial states in transition era were left with a human capital stock in need of the innovative intelligence and proficiencies. Thus, revealed the necessity to reorganize the industrial sector and to re-establish many organizations that do not prevail in the centrally planned economies or were non-efficient. Demetriades and Luintel (1996) used panel data for 44 nations from 1986-1993 and found that progress of the stock market had an affirmative outcome on economic development. Bloch and Tang (2003) used time series investigation from 1960-1990 for 75 nations and established that the rejection occurred between the momentous relationship of economic growth and development of financial sector. Jeanneney et al. (2006) utilized the information of China from 1993-2001 by depleting the technique of Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and established that the improvement of financial sector influenced efficiency proliferation optimistically. Backé et al. (2007) manipulated Panel co-integration for Central and Eastern Europe states from 1993-2006 and originated that development of financialsector influence economic growth constructively. Caporale et al. (2009) used data of Bulgaria, Czech. Rep., Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia from 1994-2007 and originate that depository sector boosted economic growth, but stock markets had comparatively minute influence on economic growth. On the further dispense, there prevailed one way causation from expansion of the financial stratum for economic growth.

The crucial target of this probe is to assess the premise that “financial development ‘leads’ economic growth” in Korea, Philippines and Thailand. Only three emerging markets are selected due to the non availability of data of some variables for the selected era. Time-series information is utilized to estimate Vector Auto Regression to estimate the effects of financial development and economic growth on inflation, interest rate, investment in addition to trade openness. This manuscript is systematized as follows: section 2 and 3 consists of methodology as well as model specification of VAR respectively; empirical outcomes are displayed in section 4. Conclusion and discussion are presented in final section.

1.1. Financial Development Indicators of Emerging Asian Countries

Table 1 presents the fundamental financial development indicators of Emerging Asian economies. In order to make comparison in this table, the financial development indicators from Developing and Developed Emerging Asian nations are provided. Broad Money, Domestic Credit provided by financial sector and banks has increased in all emerging markets. From 1990 to 2015 Broad money has increased sharply in all states; whereas in India and Singapore it has increased slowly in these states. Domestic credit provided by financial sector as well as banks has increased slowly in India whereas in rest of the states it has increased sharply.  The stock traded value has increased in China and Thailand sharply but has declined in India, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea and Singapore.

Table-1. Financial Development Indicators of Selected Asian Countries

Broad money (% of GDP)
Country/Year 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
China 77.79 99.03 135.58 151.09 175.74 202.06
India 42.75 44.13 55.38 66.48 78.57 78.52
Korea 34.75 35.89 65.03 111.05 131.24 143.68
Malaysia 64.38 115.63 122.70 124.96 129.64 135.02
Philippines 34.25 51.85 57.68 54.28 61.40 74.23
Singapore 87.71 81.85 103.44 103.64 125.05 127.48
Thailand 76.16 84.34 111.21 104.12 108.99 128.38
Domestic credit provided by financial sector (% of GDP)
Country/Year 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
China 88.42959 86.92321 118.4004 132.5905 142.1988 193.4096
India 51.53674 44.19907 52.78882 60.18812 74.25675 76.10754
Korea 49.00778 46.67325 70.93974 125.4518 151.0408 165.9571
Malaysia 72.67381 126.7069 138.3722 117.6557 123.2913 144.7271
Philippines 23.23292 55.74031 58.33521 47.24666 49.23195 59.00766
Singapore 58.59961 59.11124 76.65038 61.16106 80.75218 119.3791
Thailand 94.08296 140.2728 134.2607 111.0179 133.419 171.6599
Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP)
Country/Year 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
China 84.04552 83.09731 111.0131 111.8073 126.2942 152.5412
India 25.25332 22.81512 28.7227 40.63665 51.13515 52.20809
Korea 47.71165 46.80732 71.98827 114.8188 135.9278 140.0733
Malaysia 69.41267 124.1602 126.7293 106.2929 107.0374 125.1081
Philippines 19.1748 37.53098 36.76903 29.07345 29.57852 41.76722
Singapore 79.1379 88.20769 96.2869 89.49612 96.21756 127.0253
Thailand 83.36905 138.7868 105.1217 93.8281 90.68254 116.0762
Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP)
Country/Year 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
China .. 10.55463 62.1278 17.16415 135.3591 355.4198
India .. .. .. 57.34444 65.25686 36.94008
Korea 26.71065 33.12656 88.20098 133.5784 148.904 133.3366
Malaysia 24.33127 67.78585 55.98862 31.10377 45.01248 37.60759
Philippines 6.892101 19.78791 9.10107 5.19342 11.14747 13.12208
Singapore 58.28055 72.76392 99.28957 91.52848 129.3438 66.7127
Thailand 18.43911 34.80287 15.29454 47.44386 65.20897 67.95922

Source: World Development Indicators (WDI)

Figure 1 shows GDP growth of Emerging Asian nations. In China and Singapore it has declined sharply. In China GDP growth has declined from 11.4% to 6.9%, whereas in Singapore it declined from 7.4% to 1.9%. GDP growth has increased in Philippines whereas it has slightly declined in Korea Republic, Malaysia, India, as well as in Thailand .

Figure-1. GDP Growth of Emerging Asian Markets

2. MODELING FRAMEWORK

In this research we designate a VAR representative that entails a set of variables characterized by the subsequent structure

Where a vector of variables, six by six matrices of coefficients and a vector of error terms are specified as Xt, A1- Ak and ɛt. CPI is inflation. Inflation is computed by consumer price index. It manifests “the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly”. 

EG is Economic Growth. “GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products”. It is acquired as yearly % growth rate of GDP at market prices based on constant local currency.

FD is financial development. It is defined as “Domestic credit to private sector by banks refers to financial resources provided to the private sector by other depository corporations (deposit taking corporations except central banks), such as through loans, purchases of non equity securities, and trade credits and other accounts receivable, that establish a claim for repayment”. It is proxied by Domestic credence to denationalized stratum by reservoirs as % of GDP.

INT is Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %).  “It is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the interest rate paid by commercial or similar banks for demand, time, or savings deposits”. The tenures and clauses affixed to these rates vary by state, though, confining their comparability.

INV is Investment. “Gross fixed capital formation (formerly gross domestic fixed investment) includes land improvements, plant, machinery, and equipment purchases; and the construction of roads, railways, and the like, including schools, offices, hospitals, private residential dwellings, and commercial and industrial buildings”. Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP) is manipulated as investment.

TRD is Trade openness. “It is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services measured as a share of gross domestic product”.

We employ time series information over the era 1976 to 2015 for Korea, Philippines and Thailand. The information is acquired from WDI.  The rationale behind this scrutiny is to probe the premise that “financial development ‘leads’ economic growth” for Emerging Asian markets. Our crucial target is to scrutinize that whether financial sector progress is obligatory to boost proliferation rates in emerging Asian economies.

3. METHDOLOGY

VAR is applied to address the issues of financial development and economic growth. While Impulse response function and forecast variance error decomposition are used to inspect vigorous relationships between the focus variables.

3.1. Vector Auto Regression Model

VARrepresentation was presented by Sims (1980). “It is a standard econometric representation, which obtains the endogenous unstable in the system as the function of the lagged value of all the unstable in the system so as to promote the single variable auto regression model to the vector auto regression model expressed by multivariate time series variables”. This representation definitely deals with the scrutiny and prognosticating of numerous correlated economic indicators with ease.

It is the simultaneous form of Autoregressive representation. The configuration of VARrepresentation is determined simply through the number of variables as well as the lag length. A VAR representation of bivariate structure is specified as:

It is the fundamental representation of VAR, as the procedure only has lagged endogenous variables, so that these lagged endogenous variable are asymptotically uncognated. Then we can apply OLS technique to evaluate each VAR procedure, and the parameter estimators that we acquire will be reliable.

VAR is valuable in anticipating structures of interconnectd time series and for scrutinizing the vigorous effects of random disturbances on the structure of variables. The VARproposed representations of each endogenous variable as a function of lagged values of all the endogenous variables in the structure.

3.2. Unit Root Test

In an econometric time series the order of integration is verified by applying the unit root tests. There are various unit root test employed in the prose, however we apply two most common tests which are briefly conferred below. These tests are checked at level and 1st difference.

3.3. Augmented Dickey Fuller test (ADF)

Dickey and Fuller (1979) proposed the “Dickey Fuller test” (DF test). It was remodeled by “Augmented Dickey Fuller test” which is the first unit root test. Regression equation of “DF test” is specified as

In DF test the null proposition tested is the subsistence of unit root H0: Ɵ=0, against the alternative proposition of rejection of unit root H1: Ɵ< 0. This assessment is based on equation (4) which infers that error term ɛtproceeds a white noise process. ADF test, which permits serial correlation in the ɛt error term, is expanded. ADF tes, thus becomes

Where δtis time trend. The ADF testalso assesses for subsistence of unit root H0: Ɵ=0 against the alternative proposition of rejection of unit root H1: Ɵ< 0, like the DF test. Standard t-distribution is not followed by ADF testwith or without trend; the critical values are derived by stimulation.

3.4. Phillips and Perron test

Phillips and Perron (1988) proposed a substitute unit root test that lead serial correlation in the error term. Unlike the ADF test, this assessment is based on a non augmented Dickey Fuller testequation that permits for auto correlated residuals.

Where ɛt are serially correlated. The tests generally provide the similar decision as the ADF tests, and the computation of the test statistics is complicated. The “PP test” t-statistics are calculated as

Where one period differenced (yt – yt-1) variance is r0, n-period differenced (yt – yt-n) variance is ho. The t-statistics along with standard error of ƟaretƟ and σƟ respectively.

3.5. Cointegration Test

“In the context of non stationary data it is relatively feasible that there is a linear combination of integrated variables, i.e. stationary; such variables are said to be cointegrated” (Enders, 1995). In the cointegrated structure it is imperative to indicate that the order of integration of all the variables has to be the identical. The techniques for analyzing Cointegrationwhich are well-liked in economic prose are Engle and Granger (1987) technique and Johansen and Juselius (1990) technique. Engle Grangeris not appropriate here since it is applicable only on two variables. Therefore, we employ Johansen method.

n time series has the vector yt, each of which is I (1). The vector can be articulated as

The rank r of π in the equation (8) is identical to the number of cointegrating vectors in the system was shown by Johansen (1988) andJuselius (1990). Moreover, the π may be factorized as αβˊ. The null proposition test of rejection of Cointegration of the number of cointegrating vectors ‘r’ is done by utilizing λmax and λtrace test derived from β. The null proposition for trace assessment is r0=0 against the alternative proposition r0>0; whereas the null proposition for max test is r= r0 against the alternative r0 = r0+1. Johansen and Juselius (1990)presented the critical values of λmax and λtrace statistics.

3.6. Ganger Causality Test

Consider the augmented VARrepresentation

3.7. Impulse Response Function (IRF)

“The Impulse response function traces the impact of one standard error change in the exogenous variable on the endogenous variable”. The time path of the causes of ‘shocks’ of other variable restrained in the VAR on a specific variable are specified by Impulse response functionevaluation. This proposition is devised to conclude “how each variable responds over time to an earlier ‘shock’ in that variable and to ‘shocks’ in other variables”.

3.8. Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD)

The FEVD decomposes variations in an endogenous variable into component shocks giving information about the relative importance of each random shock to the variable”. “The FEVD informs us the proportion of movement in a sequence due to its own shocks versus the shocks due to other variables” (Enders, 1995). The technique which disintegrates the variance of the forecast errors for every variable following a ‘shock’ to a specified variable and it is feasible to recognize which variable are vigorously persuaded and those that are not.

Mutually these two techniques are termed innovation accounting and permit a spontaneous perception into the vigorous connection among the economic variables in a VAR.

4.EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

The Unit root test is conducted at level as well as at 1st difference by employing “ADF test” and “PP test”. Consequences of unit root test for Korea, Philippiness and Thailand are presented from table 2 to 4.

Table-2. Unit Root test for Korea

  ADF Test (Level) ADF Test (1st Difference) PP Test
(Level)
PP Test
(1st Difference)
  Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend
CPI 0.0232** 0.0463** 0.0059* 0.0528* 0.0215** 0.0617 0.0000* 0.0000*
EG 0.020* 0.0019* 0.0000* 0.0001* 0.0022* 0.0001* 0.0001* 0.0000*
FD 0.9670 0.6077 0.0088* 0.0049* 0.9541 0.7371 0.011* 0.0068*
INT 0.0046* 0.016** 0.0000* 0.0001* 0.0030* 0.0113** 0.0000* 0.0000*
INV 0.4048 0.6924 0.0000* 0.0002* 0.1831 0.4618 0.0060* 0.0157*
TRD 0.6260 0.6638 0.0000* 0.0001* 0.5844 0.5715 0.0000* 0.0001*

Note: The critical values for 1% level are -3.646342 and -4.262735 without and with trend respectively. The values for 5% level are -2.954021 and -3.552973 without and with trend respectively. * And ** indicates that test is stationary at 1% and 5% respectively.

Table-3. Unit Root test for Philippines

  ADF Test (Level) ADF Test (1st Difference) PP Test
(Level)
PP Test
(1st Difference)
  Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend
CPI 0.817 0.049 0.1033 0.292 0.033* 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.0000*
EG 0.0167** 0.0000* 0.0003* 0.147 0.0154** 0.0692 0.0000* 0.0000*
FD 0.2295 0.3302 0.0017* 0.0097* 0.4082 0.5084 0.0020* 0.0112**
INT 0.0172** 0.0610 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.0149** 0.0627 0.0000* 0.0000*
INV 0.0580 0.2046 0.0001* 0.0008* 0.2285 0.4080 0.0002* 0.0010*
TRD 06573 0.9787 0.0001* 0.0003* 0.589 0.9588 0.0001* 0.0003*

Note: The critical values for 1% level are -3.646342 and -4.262735 without and with trend respectively. The values for 5% level are -2.954021 and -3.552973 without and with trend respectively. * And ** indicates that test is stationary at 1% and 5% respectively.

Table-4. Unit Root test for Thailand

  ADF Test (Level) ADF Test (1st Difference) PP Test
(Level)
PP Test
(1st Difference)
  Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend Constant Trend
CPI 0.0641 0.0415** 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.0577 0.0415** 0.0000* 0.0000*
EG 0.0209** 0.0208** 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.0209** 0.0208** 0.0000* 0.0000*
FD 0.3046 0.4416 0.0413** 0.1414 0.4266 0.7465 0.0312** 0.1108
INT 0.1385 0.1492 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.1778 0.1736 0.0000* 0.0000*
INV 0.1066 0.0008* 0.0050* 0.3590 0.7162 0.0102** 0.0519 0.7070
TRD 0.7070 0.7199 0.0000* 0.0000* 0.7102 0.7201 0.0000* 0.0000*

Note: The critical values for 1% level are -3.646342 and -4.262735 without and with trend respectively. The values for 5% level are -2.954021 and -3.552973 without and with trend respectively. * And ** indicates that test is stationary at 1% and 5% respectively.

The outcomes of the unit root tests for, Korea, Philippines as well as Thailand are specified in Tables 2 to 4. The sADF as well as PP tests are executed with trend and without a trend for each of the variables. The Akiake Information Criterion (AIC) is exploited to arbitrate the lag length. For Korea CPI, economic growth and interest rate are stationary at level and 1st difference whereas financial development, investment and trade are stationary at 1st difference. For Philippines CPI, economic growth and interest rate are stationary at level and 1st difference whereas financial development, investment and trade are stationary at 1st difference. For Thailand CPI, economic growth and investment are stationary at level and 1st difference whereas financial development, interest rate and trade are stationary at 1st difference.

4.1. Cointegration Test

Cointegration test outcomes are presented by employing Trace and Max Statistics. Cointegration test outcomes are mentioned from table 5 to 7 for Korea, Philippines and Thailand. For Korea and Thailand trace and max test the result indicates 1 cointegration whereas for Philippines trace test indicates 1 cointegration and max test indicates no cointegration. 

Table-5. Cointegration Test for Korea

Hypothesized   Trace 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None *  0.803875  109.9839  83.93712  0.0002
At most 1  0.457115  52.96885  60.06141  0.1719
At most 2  0.396986  31.58881  40.17493  0.2771
At most 3  0.276298  13.88528  24.27596  0.5467
At most 4  0.069288  2.567151  12.32090  0.8981
At most 5  0.001541  0.053975  4.129906  0.8490
Hypothesized   Max-Eigen 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None *  0.803875  57.01506  36.63019  0.0001
At most 1  0.457115  21.38004  30.43961  0.4278
At most 2  0.396986  17.70353  24.15921  0.2927
At most 3  0.276298  11.31813  17.79730  0.3567
At most 4  0.069288  2.513176  11.22480  0.8592
At most 5  0.001541  0.053975  4.129906  0.8490

Note: Trace and Max test indicates 1 cointegrating equations at the 0.05 level. * denotes the rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level

Table-6. Cointegration Test for Philippines

Hypothesized   Trace 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None *  0.650557  91.82817  83.93712  0.0119
At most 1  0.512662  50.82303  60.06141  0.2355
At most 2  0.323248  22.78994  40.17493  0.7728
At most 3  0.108604  7.562371  24.27596  0.9644
At most 4  0.072026  3.078683  12.32090  0.8378
At most 5  0.004180  0.163359  4.129906  0.7381
Hypothesized   Max-Eigen 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None *  0.803875  57.01506  36.63019  0.0001
At most 1  0.457115  21.38004  30.43961  0.4278
At most 2  0.396986  17.70353  24.15921  0.2927
At most 3  0.276298  11.31813  17.79730  0.3567
At most 4  0.069288  2.513176  11.22480  0.8592
At most 5  0.001541  0.053975  4.129906  0.8490

Note: Trace and Max eigenvalue test indicates 1 cointegrating equations at the 0.05 level. * denotes the rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level

Table-7. Cointegration Test for Thailand

Hypothesized   Trace 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None *  0.554724  84.96792  83.93712  0.0420
At most 1  0.474587  54.22362  60.06141  0.1411
At most 2  0.336168  29.76796  40.17493  0.3667
At most 3  0.197453  14.19839  24.27596  0.5207
At most 4  0.141171  5.839700  12.32090  0.4558
At most 5  0.001490  0.056657  4.129906  0.8453
Hypothesized   Max-Eigen 0.05  
No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**
None  0.554724  30.74430  36.63019  0.2070
At most 1  0.474587  24.45566  30.43961  0.2314
At most 2  0.336168  15.56957  24.15921  0.4583
At most 3  0.197453  8.358686  17.79730  0.6664
At most 4  0.141171  5.783043  11.22480  0.3750
At most 5  0.001490  0.056657  4.129906  0.8453

Note: Trace and Max eigenvalue test indicates 1 and no cointegrating equations at the 0.05 level respectively. * denotes the rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level

4.2. Granger Causality Test

Granger Causality investigation outcomes are mentioned from table 8 to 10. For Korea economic growth does not cause financial development and interest rate whereas it causes investment, whereas financial development does not cause economic growth, interest rate and investment. For Philippines economic growth does not cause financial development and interest rate whereas it causes investment, whereas financial development does not cause economic growth, interest rate and investment. For Thailand economic growth does notcause financial development, interest rate and investment, financial development does not cause economic growthand interest rate and causes investment.

Table-8. Causality Test for Korea

Cause Effect Test Statistics Probability Result
EG CPI 0.680011 0.7118 EG does not cause CPI
EG FD 7.882581 0.0194** EG causes FD
EG INT 1.585035 0.4527 EG does not cause INT
EG INV 9.722828 0.0077* EG causes INV
EG TRD 0.600876 0.7405 EG does not cause TRD
FD CPI 0.246225 0.8842 FD does not cause CPI
FD EG 0.130858 0.9367 FD does not cause EG
FD INT 0.215537 0.8978 FD does not cause INT
FD INV 0.265705 0.8756 FD does not cause INV
FD TRD 0.046854 0.9768 FD does not cause TRD

Note: ** indicates the test is significant at 5% level

Table-9. Causality Test for Philippines

Cause Effect Test Statistics Probability Result
EG CPI 3.186792 0.2032 EG does not cause CPI
EG FD 0.542106 0.7626 EG does not causes FD
EG INT 1.929251 0.3811 EG does not cause INT
EG INV 11.71634 0.0029** EG causes INV
EG TRD 0.738170 0.6914 EG does not cause TRD
FD CPI 0.778955 0.6774 FD does not cause CPI
FD EG 1.931233 0.3807 FD does not cause EG
FD INT 2.609990 0.2712 FD does not cause INT
FD INV 1.955185 0.3762 FD does not cause INV
FD TRD 1.299975 0.5221 FD does not cause TRD

Note: ** indicates the test is significant at 5% level

Table-10. Causality Test for Thailand

Cause Effect Test Statistics Probability Result
EG CPI  1.014902  0.6020 EG does not cause CPI
EG FD  1.758209  0.4152 EG does not causes FD
EG INT  2.155993  0.3403 EG does not cause INT
EG INV  0.013502  0.9933 EG does not causes INV
EG TRD  0.251009  0.8821 EG does not cause TRD
FD CPI  4.012145  0.1345 FD does not cause CPI
FD EG  2.188412  0.3348 FD does not cause EG
FD INT  4.614694  0.0995 FD does not cause INT
FD INV  11.34536  0.0034** FD does not cause INV
FD TRD  4.913776  0.0857 FD does not cause TRD

Note: ** indicates the test is significant at 5% level

4.3. Impulse Response Function

The crucial target of this scrutiny is to track out the influence of economic growth along with financial development ‘shocks’ on interest rate, investment and trade openness by means of impulse responsefor Korea, Philippines and Thailand.

a. Korea

Figure 2 and 3 display “Impulse response function of each variable to a positive one unit standard deviation shock to economic growth and financial development”. Initially unconstructive response of inflation to economic growth “shock “has been observed. It reaches its maximum at 3.5 years and after 6 years it dies out. Initially financial development has an insignificant influence on economic growth; after 1 year and 6 months it starts decreasing and becomes stagnant for last 4 years. In response to the “shock” of economic growth, interest rate spread is initially insignificant, it reaches at maximum around 5.5 years, after 7 years and 6 months it starts declining. Initially investment is insignificant following the economic growth “shock”; it reaches its maximum at 2 years and after 2 years it starts declining. Initially trade openness is insignificant following the economic growth “shock”; it reaches its maximum around 6 years and dies out in last 3 years.   In response to financial development “shock”, inflation dies out after 2 years and 6 months. Initially negative response of economic growthto financial developmentis observed, it remains stagnant for last 4 years. Initially interest rate spread has an insignificant influence on financial development “shock”; it reaches its maximum around 5.5 years and becomes stagnant for last 4 years. In response to financial development “shock”, initially investment is insignificant; it starts decreasing after 2 years and becomes stagnant after 6 years and 6 months. In response to financial development “shock”, initially trade openness is insignificant and after 3 years it dies out.

b. Philippines

Figure 4 and 5 display “IRF of each variable to a positive one unit standard deviation shock to economic growth and financial development”. In response to economic growth “shock”, inflation reaches maximum around 3 years and becomes stagnant after 6.5 years. In response to economic growth “shock” initially financial development is insignificant; it reaches its maximum around 6 years and becomes stagnant for last 3 years. In response to economic growth “shock” initially interest rate spread is insignificant it reaches its maximum around 5.5 years and dies out for last three years. In response to economic growth “shock”, investment is initially insignificant. It starts declining after 2 years and becomes stagnant for last 4 years. In response to economic growth “shock”, trade openness is initially insignificant; it starts increasing around three years and six months, after 5.5 years it dies out. In response to financial development “shock”, inflation is initially negative after 5.5 years it starts increasing and becomes stagnant after 7 years. In response to financial development “shock”, economic growth reaches its maximum around 2 years it declines after 4.5 years and dies out in 9th and 10th year. In response to financial development “shock” initially interest rate spread is insignificant; it starts decreasing after two years and dies out stagnant in last three years. In response to financial development “shock” investment is initially insignificant. After 2 year it starts declining. Initially trade openness has an insignificant impact on financial development “shock “and dies out in last 4 years.

c. Thailand

Figure 6 and 7 display “IRF of each variable to a positive one unit standard deviation shock to economic growth and financial development”. In response to “economic growth shock”, inflation is initially negative. It starts increasing after 4.5 years, and remains stagnant over 6 to 10 years. In response to economic growth “shock” financial development is insignificant; it starts declining after 2 years and dies out after 5 years. Initially interest rate has an insignificant influence on economic growth “shock”. It starts declining after 2 years and dies out after 5 years. In response to economic growth “shock”, investment is initially insignificant; it dies out after 1.5 years. Initially trade openness has an insignificant impact on economic growth “shock”. It reaches its maximum around 3 years and completely dies out after 6th year.  In response to financial development “shock”, inflation is initially negative and it declines throughout the period. In response to financial development “shock”, economic growth reaches its maximum around 5 years and declines after 7 years. Initially interest rate has an insignificant impact on financial development “shock”. It reaches its maximum around 3 years and declines after 4.5 years. In response to financial development “shock”, investment is insignificant. It reaches its maximum around 4 years and becomes stagnant after 6 years it. In response to financial development “shock”, initially trade openness is insignificant; it starts increasing after 5.5 years and becomes stagnant for last three years.

4.4. Forecast Error Variance Decomposition

The consequences of FEVD over a 10 year horizon for economic growth “shocks” and financial development “shocks” for Korea, Philippines and Thailand are reported from tables A1 to A3.

a. Korea

It is observed from Table A1 that the contribution of economic growth “shock” to inflation is 15.4% in 2 year horizon and it decreases to 11.7% after 4 years and declines to 11.2% after 4 year horizon. The impact of economic growth “shock” to financial development is 19.4% in 7 years and it increased to 23.2% after 3 years. The contribution of economic growth “shock” to interest rate spread is 1.4% in 6th year and it is reached to 1.68% in 10th year. The results recommend that the contribution of investment and trade openness is negligible. It is observed from Table A1 that the contribution of financial development “shock” to inflation is negligible. The impact of financial development “shock” to economic growth is 7.5% in 5 year horizon. It increases to 8.15% after 5 years. The impact of financial development “shock” to interest rate spread is 1.37% over the period of 6 years. It increases to 2.07% after 4 years. The contribution of financial development “shock” on trade openness is negligible.

b. Philippines

The results of FEVD over a 10 year horizon for economic growth “shocks” along with financial development “shocks” are conferred in Table A2. It is observed from the Table A2 that the contribution of economic growth “shock” to inflation is 29.06% in 2 years horizon and decreases to 22.9% in 6th year horizon and remains stagnant for last 4 years. The impact of economic growth “shock” to financial development is 1.08% and 6.2% between 2 to 10 years horizon. The impact of economic growth “shock” to interest rate spread is 20.3% in 3 year horizon and increases to 30.4% in 5th year horizon but decrease to 27.6% after 5 years. The contribution of economic growth “shock” to investment is 7.63% in 5th year and it increases to 9.5% after 2 years and remains stagnant for last three years. The outcomes urge that the contribution of trade openness is negligible. As observed from table A2 the contribution of financial development “shock” to inflation is 46.3% in 1st year horizon and it decreases to 42.6% in 6th year and remains stagnant for last four years. The impact of financial development “shock” to economic growth is 6.7% in 2 year horizon and it increases to 8.24% after 4 years and decreases to 7.9% in 10th year horizon. The impact of financial development “shock” to interest rate spread is 1.4% in 2 year horizon and it increases to 4.3% in 5 year horizon and decreases to 3.9% after 5 years. The contribution of financial development “shock” to investment is 6.6% in 3rd year and increases to 12.11% in 8th year. It remains stagnant for last 2 years.  The financial development “shock” explains decrease in trade openness from 2.06% to 1.84% between 2 year and 10 year horizon. The outcome suggests contribution of trade openness is negligible.

c. Thailand

The results of FEVD over a 10 year horizon for “economic growth shocks” and “financial development shocks” are reported in Table A3. As observed from Table A3 that the contribution of economic growth “shock” to inflation is 4.7% in 3rd year horizon, it increases to 6.23% in 10th year horizon. The contribution of economic growth “shock” to financial development is 3.7% and 7.1% between 2 to 5 years; it decreases to 6.8% after 2 years and remains stagnant for last three years. The impact of economic growth “shock” to interest rate spread is 5.3% in 3rd year horizon and increases to 5.6% in 10th year horizon. The results recommend that contribution of interest rate spread is negligible. The contribution of economic growth “shock” to investment and trade openness is negligible. The contribution of financial development “shock” on rest of the variables can be observed from table A3. The impact of financial development “shock” to inflation is 8.5% in 2 year horizon and increases to 11.3% in 6th year horizon. It remains stagnant for last 4 years. Persuade of financial development “shock” on economic growth shows large part of fluctuations. It is 14.9% in 2 year horizon and increases to 62.3% in 7th year horizon; it declines to 60.4% in 10th year horizon. The contribution of “financial development shock” on interest rate spread is 5.16% in 2nd year and decreases to 4.14% in 10th year. The contribution of financial development “shock” on investment is 3.7% in 2 year horizon, increases to 11.2% 10th year horizons. The impact of financial development “shock” to trade openness is 3.06% in 2nd year horizon and it decreases to 2.9% in 10th year horizon. The result suggests contribution of trade openness is negligible.

5. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION

This research employs the VARtechniques of forecast error variance decompositionand impulse response function evaluation to scrutinize the interdependence between financial development and economic growth for Korea, Philippines along with Thailand using time series information over the era of 1976 to 2015.

ADF as well as PP test specifies that CPI, economic growth and interest rate are stationary at level; whereas financial development, investment and trade openness are stationary at 1st difference for the selected emerging Asian markets. Trace and Max test indicates 1 cointegration for Korea and Thailand whereas for Philippines trace and max test gives 1 and no cointegration respectively. From Granger Causality test we found that “financial development does not cause economic growth”; but “economic growth causes financial development” only for Korea. Impulse response function analysis suggests that in the context of Korea economic growth “shock” affect financial development. On the other hand financial development “shocks” affect economic growth, interest rate and investment. Forecast error variance decomposition results suggest that economic growth “shock” affect financial development; whereas financial development “shocks” affect economic growth, interest rate and investment. In the case of Philippines impulse response functionanalysis suggests that economic growth “shock” affect financial development. On the other part financial development “shock” affect investment. For the case of Thailand, impulse response function analysis recommends that economic growth “shock” affect inflation. On the other hand financial development “shock” affects economic growth, interest rate and investment. Forecast error variance decomposition evaluation also fosters the decisions based on impulse response function for all Emerging Asian Markets.

Therefore, from impulse response and variance decomposition we found that “financial development leads economic growth” except Philippines. To the limited extent some support for the hypothesis that “financial development ‘lead’ economic growth” was established for this research on Asian emerging markets. It is obvious that financial developmentis not merely a contributing factor, but definitely the most important factor of GDP growth. An unconstructive shock in financial developmentdoes not induce harmful economic growth, the reverse is powerfully supported. However, the financial sector presents support for the economic growth. This becomes more evident when credence to denationalize sector to GDP ratio series are utilized as the financial developmentindicator.

It is obvious that whatever causality may exist, it is not uniform in direction or strength, and emphasizes the incompatibility of cross-sectional evaluation  for   methodological perception; the proposition that “financial development leads economic growth” is not usually supported by time-series investigation, at least not from the evidence of Asian emerging markets. Our results are similar to the study of Shan (2006) in the case of China.

Funding: This study received no specific financial support. 
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Contributors/Acknowledgement: All authors contributed equally to the conception and design of the study.

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APPENDIX

Figure-2. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Economic Growth (Korea)

Figure-3. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Financial Development (Korea)

Figure-4. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Economic Growth (Philippines)

Figure-5. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Financial Development (Philippines)

Figure-6. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Economic Growth (Thailand)

Figure-7. Impulse response of one SD Shock to Financial Development (Thailand)

Table-A1.

Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Economic Growth (Korea)
Period S.E. KCPI KEG KFD KINT KINV KTRADE
1 2.981 18.605 81.394 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.0000
2 3.273 15.430 73.639 6.947 0.119 3.152 0.711
3 3.498 13.696 65.247 11.442 0.337 8.225 1.0506
4 3.648 13.331 60.759 13.230 0.316 11.345 1.018
5 3.746 12.912 57.954 15.156 0.891 11.669 1.415
6 3.832 12.384 55.457 17.373 1.458 11.512 1.814
7 3.897 12.054 53.839 19.412 1.552 11.202 1.939
8 3.947 11.764 52.826 21.036 1.513 10.959 1.901
9 3.991 11.503 51.880 22.239 1.558 10.935 1.883
10 4.032 11.273 50.975 23.176 1.689 10.973 1.913
Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Financial Development
Period S.E. KCPI KEG KFD KINT KINV KTRADE
1 8.117 0.625 7.066 92.308 0.000 0.000 0.000
2 13.256 0.873 5.991 92.725 0.0317 0.335 0.042
3 17.273 0.653 6.383 92.044 0.231 0.615 0.073
4 20.661 0.529 7.041 90.679 0.584 1.069 0.095
5 23.626 0.470 7.487 89.384 0.989 1.546 0.123
6 26.247 0.442 7.7185 88.441 1.373 1.875 0.149
7 28.577 0.435 7.869 87.814 1.681 2.0376 0.164
8 30.660 0.438 7.986 87.435 1.887 2.091 0.163
9 32.538 0.439 8.079 87.236 2.006 2.086 0.153
10 34.245 0.437 8.157 87.139 2.069 2.056 0.141

Table-A2.

Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Economic Growth (Philippines)
Period S.E. PCPI PEG PFD PINT PINV PTRADE
1 2.392 29.975 70.024 0.0000 0.000 0.000 0.000
2 2.934 29.060 49.634 0.004 0.213 20.332 0.757
3 3.335 25.347 38.517 1.080 1.735 32.662 0.658
4 3.462 25.962 36.307 1.857 2.552 32.483 0.838
5 3.593 24.322 34.778 1.972 7.632 30.394 0.900
6 3.698 22.9729 34.199 3.645 9.437 28.889 0.856
7 3.757 22.395 34.307 4.973 9.479 28.006 0.839
8 3.793 22.474 33.974 5.693 9.321 27.703 0.834
9 3.813 22.487 33.632 6.091 9.276 27.634 0.878
10 3.828 22.394 33.399 6.218 9.373 27.650 0.964
Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Financial Development
Period S.E. PCPI PEG PFD PINT PINV PTRADE
1 4.233 46.291 3.374 50.334 0.000 0.000 0.000
2 7.271 42.134 6.698 44.667 1.419 3.743 1.338
3 9.200 43.589 6.564 37.868 3.241 6.667 2.068
4 10.236 44.176 7.170 33.806 4.097 8.663 2.087
5 10.736 43.272 7.923 32.056 4.317 10.438 1.992
6 10.975 42.627 8.246 31.480 4.226 11.496 1.922
7 11.118 42.407 8.242 31.418 4.122 11.934 1.876
8 11.222 42.254 8.137 31.589 4.064 12.112 1.841
9 11.294 42.144 8.043 31.838 4.016 12.140 1.819
10 11.343 42.102 7.976 32.053 3.982 12.074 1.812

Table-A3.

Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Economic Growth (Thailand)
 Period S.E. TCPI TEG TFD TINT TINV TTRADE
1  3.441  0.957  99.042  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000
 2  3.871  2.565  88.697  3.734  4.267  0.064  0.673
 3  4.020  4.719  82.441  5.457  5.338  0.112  1.931
 4  4.086  4.915  80.107  6.812  5.978  0.115  2.073
 5  4.183  4.726  79.982  7.109  5.910  0.110  2.162
 6  4.257  4.997  80.110  6.939  5.709
 9  4.377  6.171  78.736  6.589  5.658  0.503  2.341
 10  4.390  6.232  78.424  6.553  5.685  0.609  2.496
Forecast Error Variance Decompositions of Financial Development  
 Period S.E. TCPI TEG TFD TINT TINV TTRADE
1  5.0356  6.254  0.443  93.303  0.000  0.000  0.000
 2  9.129  8.526  14.853  64.701  5.161  3.690  3.068
 3  13.540  10.162  32.529  40.253  5.678  8.102  3.276
 4  18.091  10.596  48.430  25.155  3.613  10.040  2.165
 5  22.218  10.929  57.652  17.016  2.451  10.513  1.438
 6  25.542  11.383  61.459  12.876  2.362  10.610  1.308
 7  27.933  11.776  62.264  10.867  2.795  10.716  1.581
 8  29.485  11.991  61.781  9.940  3.348  10.889  2.049
 9  30.415  12.028  61.019  9.519  3.819  11.074  2.541
 10  30.942  11.965  60.401  9.316  4.147  11.220  2.949