This thesis demonstrates that consumer leverage can contribute to financial crises such as the subprime mortgage crisis characterised by increased bankruptcy prospects and tightened credit access. A recession may follow even when the leveraged sector is not a production sector and can be triggered by seeming positive events such as a technological innovation and a relaxation of borrowing conditions. The first preliminary chapter updates the Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999) approach with financial frictions in the production sector to a two-sector model with consumption and housing. It shows that credit frictions in the capital financing decisions of housing firms are not sufficient to capture the negative consumer experience with falling housing prices and relaxed credit access during the recession. The second chapter brings the model closer to the subprime mortgage crisis by shifting credit constraints to the consumer mortgage market. Increased supply of houses lowers asset prices and reduces the value of the real estate collateral used in the mortgage which in turn worsens the leverage of indebted consumers. A relaxation of borrowing conditions turns credit-constrained households into a potential source of disturbances themselves when market optimism allows them to raise their leverage with little downpayment. Both cases demonstrate that although households are not production agents, their worsening debt levels can trigger a lasting financial downturn. The third chapter develops a chained mortgage contracts model where both homeowner consumers and the financial institutions that securitize their mortgage loan are credit-constrained. Adding credit constraints to the financial sector that provides housing mortgages creates opportunities for risk sharing where banks shift some of the downturn onto indebted consumers in order to hasten their own recovery. This consequence is especially evident in the case of relaxed credit access for banks. Financial institutions repair their debt position relatively fast at the expense of consumers whose borrowing ability is squeezed for a long period despite the fact that they may not be the source of the disturbance. The result mirrors the recent subprime mortgage crisis characterised by a sharp but brief decline for banks and a protracted recovery for mortgaged households.

Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Wits Business School, 2016 / The study is an assessment of the current treatment of business risk, as a significant risk type for financial institutions. It includes an industry analysis of the five major banks in South Africa, as well as international banks, and how these banks currently manage business risk in the Pillar 2 supervisory process. It assesses economic capital frameworks and the importance of business risk in the risk assessment and measurement process in the global and local industry. Various methodologies have been researched to assess which statistical methods are best suited in the measurement of this risk type as well as the quantification of the capital levels required. This study has compared the available statistical methodologies currently used in the industry and concludes which is best given the issues pertaining to the modelling of business risk quantification. A statistical model has been developed to quantify business risk for a specific bank using bank specific data, using a methodology which is relatively generic and could be applied widely across all financial institutions. The model serves to illustrate the principles surrounding the quantification of business risk economic capital. / GR2018

Thesis (M.M.(Finance & Investment)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Wits Business School, 2017 / This study investigated whether the financial sector (private and public) is accessible to the SME’s and entry level entrepreneurs dominated by Black and poor people. The study employed a comparative analysis method; it compared the structure of the South African financial sector to those of India and Brazil, as newly industrialised countries. The finding indicates that the South African financial sector lacked the presence of state-owned financial institutions as in the comparable NCI countries to support SMEs and entry level Black entrepreneurs. The study then recommended the creation of state-owned microfinance institutions, whose performance will determine the need of state-owned banks / GR2018

FinTech companies have grown tremendously during the last decades and generated great impacts on traditional financial institutions and led to enormous alteration in the ways of providing the financial services. The continuous development of the financial services has stepped into a new stage, where new entrants impact incumbents even more and many challenges accompanied by threats might come to light. Questions started to appear about the future of the financial institutions, since the new entrants provide the same services of the incumbents in an effortless manner. The choice of this research topic was driven by the fact that previous research about FinTech focused solely on the evolution of FinTech companies and their segments, but studies have been neglected the impact of FinTech companies on financial institutions and how the latter remedy with that impact. Hence, the interest in how the financial institutions are influenced by FinTech companies resulted in the following research question: What is the impact of FinTech companies on financial institutions in Sweden? We formulated two more detailed questions to guide our study: 1) How the financial institutions remedy with the development of FinTech companies to protect their existence as financial services providers? 2) What kind of relationship have the financial institutions with the FinTech companies? The aim of this study is to extend the existing knowledge about the current and potential impacts of FinTech companies on financial institutions. Moreover, the purpose is to have a better understanding about how the incumbents remedy the effects of the new entrants and challenges that they confront. This study answered the research question through a qualitative method and the empirical data has been gathered from ten interviews with banks and insurance companies in Sweden. The findings of this thesis revealed that the FinTech companies obliged the financial institutions to develop their IT systems and services, either inhouse or by cooperating with FinTech companies and made them more open for collaboration than before. Further, the banking sector is more impacted by FinTech companies than the insurance sector. That makes them more likely to leave some segments for the new entrants in future. Concerning the attitudes, all the financial institutions are positive about FinTech companies and their impacts even though a few of the new entrants attempt to provide financial services with low security, generally most of them keen to improve the financial services.

As pressões impostas pela internacionalização do mercado de capitais favoreceram a decisão do Parlamento da União Européia de impor, por meio do Regulamento nº. 1606/2002, a adoção das normas internacionais de contabilidade na elaboração das demonstrações contábeis consolidadas a partir de 2005 às empresas domiciliadas na União Européia (UE) e listadas em mercados regulamentados. Seguindo o movimento dos mercados internacionais, o Brasil se inicia em uma nova etapa, representada pela busca da convergência das práticas contábeis. Conseqüentemente, uma das primeiras questões que surge durante o processo de transição para um novo conjunto de padrões contábeis corresponde aos impactos que sua introdução pode causar, em virtude de possíveis divergências conceituais existentes em relação às normas anteriormente adotadas. No caso da provisão para devedores duvidosos, essa incerteza se faz ainda mais presente pelo fato de as normas internacionais de contabilidade incorporarem um método de mensuração muito singular, cujo nível de complexidade difere significativamente de métodos de mensuração adotados por países como o Brasil, por exemplo. Nesse sentido, o objetivo do presente trabalho buscou, para uma amostra representativa de bancos europeus listados na Bolsa de Nova Iorque: (i) verificar se existe diferença significativa entre o saldo de provisão para devedores duvidosos calculado em consonância com as IFRS e o calculado segundo as normas locais anteriormente adotadas, e quantificar a magnitude da diferença e (ii) verificar se existe relação significativa entre a quantidade de agências dos bancos e os métodos de avaliação individual e coletivo previstos pelas IFRS para fins de mensuração da perda por imparidade. Inicialmente, foi utilizada a técnica de regressão linear, com as informações do período compreendido pelos exercícios sociais findos entre 2000 e 2006, nos quais a variável dependente corresponde à provisão para devedores duvidosos e as duas variáveis independentes são carteira de crédito e uma variável dummy correspondente à adoção das IFRS. Em seguida, foi aplicado o teste paramétrico de comparação de médias, ANOVA, em que a variável independente se refere à adoção das IFRS e a variável dependente é representada pela relação entre provisão para devedores duvidosos e carteira de crédito. Posteriormente, a fim de verificar a existência de relação entre a quantidade de agência dos bancos e o método de avaliação de provisão, utilizou-se uma matriz de correlações com base nos coeficientes de Spearman, considerando as variáveis provisão individual e provisão coletiva em relação ao total, e carteira de crédito e patrimônio líquido em relação à quantidade de agências. Com base nos resultados da pesquisa, conclui-se que a introdução das IFRS não trouxe impacto significativo ao saldo de provisão para devedores duvidosos dos bancos europeus listados na Bolsa de Nova Iorque. Também se conclui que a quantidade de agências dos bancos não se relaciona com os métodos de mensuração individual e coletivo estabelecidos pela IAS 39, em virtude da diferente aplicação entre as instituições financeiras do conceito de operação de crédito individualmente relevante . / The pressure created by the internationalization of capital markets prompted the European Parliament s decision to enforce, through Regulation nº 1606/2002, the adoption of international accounting standards by companies domiciled in the European Union (EU) and listed in the regulated stock markets, for preparing their consolidated financial statements, effective from 2005. In line with this international market trend, Brazil has commenced a new phase in the pursuit for convergence in accounting practices. As a consequence, one of the first questions arising from the transition process concerns the possible impact caused by the introduction of the new accounting standards, considering the conceptual divergences existing in relation to the previously adopted norms. This uncertainty is heightened, in the case of the allowance for loan losses, by the fact that the international accounting standards incorporate a very specific measurement method, which as a result of its complex nature differs significantly from the measurement methods adopted by countries, such as Brazil, for example. Accordingly, the object of this study sought, based on a representative sample of European banks listed in the New York Stock Exchange: (i) to verify whether there is a significant difference between the balance of the allowance for loan losses calculated pursuant to IFRS and that calculated in accordance with previously adopted accounting standards and to measure the degree of such difference and (ii) to verify whether there is any significant relation between the number of bank branches and the use of the individual and collective evaluation methods established in IFRS for measuring the allowance for loan losses. Initially, the linear regression technique was used, based on information for the financial years between 2000 and 2006, where the dependent variable is the allowance for loan losses and the two independent variables are the credit portfolio and a dummy variable corresponding to the adoption of IFRS. Next, the analysis of variances (ANOVA) test was applied, where the independent variable refers to the adoption of IFRS and the dependent variable is represented by the division of the allowance for loan losses by the credit portfolio. Subsequently, for the purpose of verifying whether the number of bank branches is related to the method used to measure the allowance, a matrix of correlations was used based on the Spearman coefficients, considering as variables the individual allowance and the collective allowance in relation to the total and the credit portfolio and the stockholders equity in relation to the number of branches. Based on the results of this study, it was concluded that the introduction of IFRS did not have a material effect on the balance of the allowance for loan losses of the European banks listed in the New York Stock Exchange. Further, it was also concluded that the number of bank branches is not related to the use of the individual and collective measurement methods, as established by IAS 39, since the concept of individually significant credit operations is applied differently by each financial institution.

O objetivo geral da tese é estudar os fatores que influenciaram o volume de crédito privado em três grupos de países - Grupo OCDE, BRICs e América Latina e Caribe -, entre 2004 e 2010. Com a utilização da regressão de dados em painel, os modelos desenvolvidos indicam que, para o Grupo OCDE, o Consumo Privado foi o fator relevante de maior impacto sobre a razão Crédito/PIB, e o sinal positivo de seu coeficiente indica a importância das decisões de consumo das famílias para a liquidez do setor privado, além de refletir o eventual direcionamento do crédito ao consumo. Nos BRIC\'s e na América Latina e Caribe, o sinal negativo obtido pelo saldo da Balança de Transações Correntes foi o elemento mais significativo e de maior intensidade sobre a variável dependente, sinalizando dependência de poupança externa. Além disso, foi observado que, em todos os grupos de países estudados, a magnitude do Comércio Internacional afetou positivamente o grau de endividamento privado nas economias. O significado, para os tomadores de decisão, dos resultados encontrados é analisado no final do trabalho. / The main goal of this thesis is to investigate the private credit determinants in a country between 2004 and 2010, when OECD\'s richer countries, BRIC\'s and Latin American and Caribbean faced Private Credit/GDP ratio\'s increasing. Assuming heterogeneity among regions and applying regression panel data models the outputs indicate in OECD\'s richer countries, Private Credit/GDP ratio was mainly positively influenced by the Household Consumption. In BRIC\'s and Latin America and Caribbean, the Current Account Balance was the most relevant determinant. Furthermore, International Trade affected positively Private Credit/GDP in all country groups. Finally, the significance of these findings for decision makers is analyzed.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bartira_Rugai.pdf: 812148 bytes, checksum: f961875514f13c2844adcc9c6401a887 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-28 / The objective of this work is to analyze the costing template used within a large National Financial Institution focusing on Management Accountancy. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the costing template used is efficient in the costing distribution and control within the organization, helping managers to make decisions. This research describes the development aspects of the template used, which combines some of the existing costing templates, such as ABC and Absorption Costing, and the way the template behaves in terms of costing distribution between different areas, considering the company's hierarchical structure. This work was developed using the Case Study methodology, where data were collected by means of a questionnaire with 20 objective questions based on the Likert scale, complemented by another one with 7 multiple choice questions aimed at analyzing respondents' profile, both questionnaires being applied to Institution employees involved in the costing analysis and controlling process. The findings produced a combination of factors that allowed to reach the objective of the study and to answer the initial question also allowing us to understand the main characteristics introduced by the template, identifying strong and weak points. The conclusion of the study presents the results obtained from factorial analysis and their relation to respondents' profile, in addition to indicate some suggestions for improvement made by the researcher during this work development, pointed out with the objective of contributing to template upgrade. / Este trabalho tem como foco a an??lise do modelo de custeio utilizado em uma Institui????o Financeira Nacional de grande porte, sob o enfoque da Contabilidade Gerencial. O objetivo deste estudo ?? avaliar se o modelo utilizado ?? eficiente na distribui????o e controle de custos dentro da organiza????o, auxiliando os gestores na tomada de decis??o. A pesquisa passa pelos aspectos de forma????o do modelo utilizado, que combina alguns dos principais modelos de custeio existentes, tais como o ABC e o Custeio por Absor????o, e como este modelo se comporta na distribui????o dos custos entre as diferentes ??reas, considerando a estrutura hierarquia da empresa. O trabalho foi desenvolvido pela metodologia do Estudo de Caso, onde os dados foram coletados atrav??s de um question??rio de 20 quest??es objetivas, feito com base na escala de Likert, complementado por um outro de 7 quest??es de m??ltipla escolha para levantamento do perfil dos respondentes, ambos foram aplicados aos funcion??rios da Institui????o envolvidos no processo de an??lise e controle de custos. Os dados levantados resultaram em uma combina????o de fatores, que levaram ao objetivo do estudo e a resposta da quest??o inicialmente levantada, e permitiu conhecer as principais caracter??sticas apresentadas pelo modelo, identificando seus pontos fortes e fracos. O estudo encerra apresentando os resultados levantados na an??lise fatorial e sua rela????o com o perfil dos respondentes, al??m de apontar algumas sugest??es de melhoria que foram levantadas pelo pesquisador durante o decorrer deste trabalho, apontadas aqui com o objetivo de contribuir com o aprimoramento do modelo.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo_Habrain_Hadadd.pdf: 436038 bytes, checksum: 047e54f07696338a90b12e425dda19e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-22 / The objective of this study is to analyze the contributions of the controlling area in the support to the treasury management in a financial institution. Both areas of controlling department and treasury are widely discussed, be it in books or in dissertations and thesis, comprehending the corporate as well as the financial institution environments. Thus, this research aims to answer the following problem question: What is the contribution of the controlling area to the treasury in a financial institution? Initially, from bibliographic research, concepts inherent to the controlling and treasury environments in a financial institution are presented. Then, a case study is performed on a bank with headquarters in the State of S??o Paulo, but with offices all over Brazil. The research was conducted through an interview with the controlling area Superintendent and also through documents received from the institution itself. The results obtained with the research enable to conclude that, for this institution, the controlling area acts in the support to the treasury area, with the role of management of information ranging from results to the control and measurement of financial risks. / O prop??sito deste estudo ?? analisar as contribui????es da controladoria no suporte a gest??o de tesouraria em uma institui????o financeira. Tanto a ??rea de controladoria como de tesouraria s??o amplamente discutidas, seja em livros ou em disserta????es e teses, abrangendo tanto o ambiente de empresas como o de institui????es financeiras. Desta forma, esta pesquisa visa responder ?? seguinte quest??o problema: Qual a contribui????o da controladoria para as atividades da ??rea de tesouraria em uma institui????o financeira? Inicialmente s??o apresentados, a partir da pesquisa bibliogr??fica, conceitos inerentes ao ambiente da controladoria e da tesouraria em uma institui????o financeira. Posteriormente, ?? realizado um estudo de caso de um banco com sede no Estado de S??o Paulo, mas com escrit??rios em v??rios estados do Brasil. A pesquisa foi conduzida atrav??s de uma entrevista com o Superintendente da ??rea de controladoria e tamb??m por meio de documentos recebidos da pr??pria institui????o. Os resultados obtidos com a pesquisa permitem concluir que nesta institui????o a controladoria atua no suporte ?? ??rea de tesouraria, com a fun????o de gestora de informa????es que v??o desde resultados ao controle e mensura????o de riscos financeiros.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Correia Lacanna.pdf: 1641353 bytes, checksum: ed94ad3ced7c02b80644b1c793ba1024 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The process of implementing international accounting standards, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) was adopted internationally by financial institutions, in order to allow its financial statements to be more transparent and comparable with other financial reports issued by other companies thus enabling the main users of Accounting to understand in a harmonious and universal language the accounting numbers and their explanatory notes, thus assisting them in the process of decision-making in the accounting, management, economic and operational spheres. In Brazil, since 2010, financial institutions have started to prepare and disclose their consolidated financial statements in two different standards, the first standard being called BRGAAP, through the use of standards and procedures issued by the Central Bank of Brazil (BACEN) and the second standard, denominated IFRS, through the issuance of standards issued by the IASB, converged and translated by the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC) and endorsed by BACEN through Resolutions. From the beginning of the process of convergence to international standards, the IASB standard that most impacted the Bank's reality was IAS 39 Financial Instruments. IAS 39 has always been considered complex since it was issued. After the 2008 crisis, it was possible to carry out a review of the standard by the regulatory agencies, resulting in the institutionalization of a project that segmented this work into three main stages, the first phase being the classification and measurement of financial instruments, second stage on the introduction of a new model of calculation of loss incurred and the third step on the accounting of hedge accounting, resulting in the publication of IFRS 9 on July 24, 2014, with a mandatory date as of January 1, 2018. The purpose of this study is to explore the differences in the criteria for classification and measurement of financial instruments, impairment and accounting for hedge accounting, as set forth in IAS 39 (International Accounting Standard) and IFRS 9. Related to this, as a data source, the report containing the quarterly financial information of the Brazilian Financial Institutions was selected on the BACEN website and selected the ranking of the 10 largest Financial Conglomerates in Brazil, whose search filter corresponded to the "Total Assets" field, as of March 31, 2018 , obtaining a representativity of 87% of the total. The target of this study is to evaluate the main effects of the adoption of IFRS 9 in the Financial Statements of Financial Institutions for the Institutions they adopted before 2018 and the impact estimates for those that will adopt the standard in 2018. Differences in accounting criteria IAS 39 and IFRS 9 were evaluated under the premise that the classification and measurement of financial assets and especially the new model in the calculation of the impairment will have a significant impact on the financial statements of the Financial Institutions. For the empirical test, the study was based on the review of the Complete Financial Statements in IFRS, on the base dates December, 31, 2017 and March, 31, 2018, in order to verify the actual / estimated impacts to the Institutions. As a conclusion, the analyzes showed that there were changes in the classification and measurement of financial assets, as well as the new calculation of the impairment impacted / would significantly impact the Shareholders' Equity, through the increase with the impairment expense, as was initially expected. Regarding the criteria for re-accounting of hedge accounting, there were no changes, as the banks chose to remain in accordance with IAS 39 criteria, since the stage of IFRS 9 regarding hedge accounting was not fully completed / O processo de implementação das normas internacionais de contabilidade, as IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) passou a ser adotado internacionalmente pelas instituições financeiras, com o objetivo de permitir que as suas demonstrações financeiras fossem mais transparentes e comparáveis com os demais relatórios financeiros emitidos por outras instituições, permitindo desta forma que os principais usuários da Contabilidade entendessem numa linguagem universal e harmoniosa os números contábeis e as suas notas explicativas, auxiliando-os desta forma no processo de tomada de decisão nas esferas contábil, gerencial, econômico e operacional. No Brasil, desde o ano de 2010, as instituições financeiras passaram a elaborar e divulgar as suas demonstrações financeiras consolidadas em dois padrões diferentes, sendo o primeiro padrão, denominado de BRGAAP, por meio do uso das normas e procedimentos emitidos pelo Banco Central do Brasil (BACEN) e o segundo padrão, denominado de IFRS, por meio da emissão de normativos emitidos pelo IASB, convergidos e traduzidos pelo Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis – CPC e referendados pelo BACEN, através de Resoluções. Desde o início do processo de convergência às normas internacionais, a norma do IASB que mais causou impacto à realidade dos Bancos foi a IAS 39 Instrumentos Financeiros. A IAS 39 sempre foi considerada complexa desde do momento de sua emissão. Após a crise de 2008, foi possível a realização da revisão da norma pelos órgãos reguladores, tendo como resultado, a institucionalização de um projeto que segmentou esse trabalho em três etapas principais, sendo a primeira fase sobre a classificação e mensuração dos instrumentos financeiros, a segunda etapa sobre a introdução de um modelo novo de cálculo de perda incorrida e a terceira etapa sobre a contabilização do hedge accounting, resultando na publicação da IFRS 9 em 24 julho de 2014, com data de vigência obrigatória a partir de 1º de janeiro de 2018. O presente estudo tem como objetivo explorar as diferenças dos critérios de classificação e mensuração dos instrumentos financeiros, o impairment e a contabilização do hedge accounting, previstos na IAS 39 (International Accounting Standard) e na IFRS 9. Nesse sentido, como fonte de dados, foi levantado no site do BACEN, o relatório contendo as informações trimestrais das Instituições Financeiras do Brasil e selecionado o ranking dos 10 maiores Conglomerados Financeiros no Brasil, cujo filtro de pesquisa correspondeu ao campo “Ativo Total”, na data base 31 de Março de 2018, obtendo uma representatividade de 87% do total. O estudo busca avaliar os principais efeitos da adoção da IFRS 9 nas Demonstrações Financeiras das Instituições Financeiras, para as Instituições que adotaram antecipadamente, antes de 2018, e as estimativas de impacto, para aquelas que adotarão a norma em 2018. As diferenças dos critérios contábeis da IAS 39 e da IFRS 9 foram avaliadas sob a premissa de que a classificação e a mensuração dos ativos financeiros e em especial o novo modelo no cálculo do impairment impactaram/impactarão consideravelmente as demonstrações contábeis das Instituições Financeiras. Para o teste empírico, o estudo baseou-se no levantamento das Demonstrações Financeiras Completas em IFRS, nas datas-base 31/12/2017 e 31/03/2018 com o objetivo de verificar os impactos reais/estimados às Instituições. Como conclusão, as análises demonstraram que houve mudanças na classificação e mensuração dos ativos financeiros, assim como o novo cálculo do impairment impactou/impactará de forma relevante o Patrimônio Líquido das Instituições, por meio do incremento com a despesa de impairment, como era inicialmente esperado. Quanto aos critérios da nova contabilização do hedge accounting, não houve mudanças, pois os Bancos optaram em permanecer com os critérios da IAS 39, uma vez que a etapa da IFRS 9 referente ao hedge accounting não foi integralmente concluída

O processo de modernização dos mercados financeiros e de capitais no período compreendido entre 1964 e 2004 é analisado em detalhes, bem como sua correlação com o crescimento econômico brasileiro. São apresentadas, de forma cronológica, as ações desencadeadas durante o período de quarenta anos, pelas autoridades econômicas e pelo Congresso Nacional, para a regulamentação e normatização dos mercados financeiros e de capitais. Na seqüência se analisa de modo detalhado o comportamento da economia brasileira durante todo o período, por meio de um conjunto de estatísticas que mostram os diferentes aspectos macroeconômicos. Esta análise é complementada pelo estudo do comportamento das principais variáveis do mercado financeiro e do mercado de capitais. Discute-se, por fim, a questão teórica das relações entre o desenvolvimento financeiro e o crescimento econômico, mostrando que existe uma relação direta entre o primeiro e o segundo, na medida em que o desenvolvimento financeiro gera crescimento econômico / This dissertation analyses the process of modernization of the Brazilian financial and capital markets and its correlation to the growth and development of the Brazilian economy during the period 1964 to 2004. This dissertation also describes in a chronological fashion, for the past four decades, the policies implemented by the Brazilian economic authorities as well as the ones approved by the Brazilian Congress aimed at establishing the rules and regulations for the Brazilian financial and capital markets. Moreover, the evolution of the Brazilian economy for this period is discussed. A substantial amount of economic data is used to study the different macroeconomic changes that took place during the period under study. Finally, this dissertation elaborates and adds to the theoretical discussion: as to whether or not there is a relationship between economic growth and financial development. This dissertation shows that there is direct relationship between the two, since financial development generates economic growth