Bakhtiar Javaheri; Khaled Ahmadzadeh; Homeyra Shahveisi
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The existence of efficient financial institutions, proper allocation of resources and financial development are the prerequisites for achieving desired economic growth and development. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting the financial development of countries. This study ...
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The existence of efficient financial institutions, proper allocation of resources and financial development are the prerequisites for achieving desired economic growth and development. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting the financial development of countries. This study examines the impact of natural resources and institutional quality on the financial development of developing countries over 2000-2016 using systemic GMM In this study, we used three indexes for financial development: the Financial Development Index (FDI) developed by IMF, the total credit provided by banks to the private sector as a share of GDP, and the Z-score index. The rent of natural resources is measured as a weighted average of income flows from oil, gas and minerals and Good Governance Indicators are used as measures of institutional quality. The results suggest that natural resources rents have a positive and significant effect on credit provided to the private sector and Financial Development Index, but threaten the stability of the banking sector. In addition, Institutional quality indicators also show a positive effect on three indicators of financial development.
Ahmad Mohammadi; zeinab savari; Khaled Ahmadzadeh
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This paper deals with the question of whether gold coin futures contract in Iran performs expected function of price discovery or not. We investigate this question by using three distinct approaches: linear and nonlinear causality tests between gold coin futures and spot market, volatility spillovers ...
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This paper deals with the question of whether gold coin futures contract in Iran performs expected function of price discovery or not. We investigate this question by using three distinct approaches: linear and nonlinear causality tests between gold coin futures and spot market, volatility spillovers between those markets and share of each market in the process of price discovery. The data cover two periods: 1 August 2011 - 24 November 2013 and 25 November 2013 - 16 July 2015, with the former period corresponding to the unprecedented volatility of gold coin market in Iran and the latter period corresponding to stability of this market. In general, the results show that causality runs from spot prices to futures prices, volatility transmits from spot market to futures market and price discovery takes place mainly in spot market. Overall, the results of this paper reveal that futures market does not perform the expected function of price discovery. The results are consistent with the basic characteristics of futures market in Iran: it is in the early stages of its development and its size, in comparison to the spot market, is small.
