%0 Journal Article
%T The Impact of Financial Development on Economic Growth in Zimbabwe: Comparative Analysis of Stock Markets and Commercial Banks
%A Lifa Maposa
%A Francis Mulenga Muma
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 4
%N 8
%P 1-27
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2017
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1103808
%X <div style="text-align:justify;">
	<span style="line-height:1.5;">The purpose of this paper is
to examine the relationship between financial development¡ªbank and stock market¡ªand economic growth in Zimbabwe. Using data during the period from 2005 to 2013, the study employed a VECM for the short run
Controls variables. This offers a possibility of applying VAR in order to use
integrated multivariate time series and avoid spurious regression as the
interest rates appear to have long run positive impact on economic growth. This
means that banking sector performs better than the stock markets if the
interest rate is positively related to economic growth. The findings suggest a</span><span style="line-height:1.5;"> positive relationship between efficient stock market and economic growth both
in short run and long run. Interest rates have a negative effect, while market
capitalisation has a positive effect on growth. It is concluded that financial
sector is important in the process of sustainable economic development in
Zimbabwe.</span>
</div>
%K Stock Market
%K Banks and Economic Growth
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5288150