Abstract
The Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth: ARDL Bounds Test Approach and Causality Analysis
This study aims to test the existence and the direction of the relationship between financial development and economic growth with various econometric tests. The model that was created by utilizing quarterly data obtained in Turkey between 1999:Q1–2018:Q1 has been estimated by the ARDL bounds testing approach and the causality relationship has been tested by Toda-Yamamoto and Hatemi-J tests. Although the findings acknowledge the existence of the relationship in question, the results of both causality tests reveal the direction of the relationship to be from economic growth to financial development.
Keywords
Financial development, economic growth, ARDL bounds test approach, Hatemi-J, Türkiye.
