Financial Development and Structure 1960-2010

Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola...and 192 more, 1960 - 2010

Reference ID

WLD_1960-2010_FDS_v02_M

Producer(s)

Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Ross Eric Levine (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

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Structure index (structur)

Data file: request8095

Overview

Valid: 69

Invalid: 37

Minimum: -0.264

Maximum: 2.575

Mean: 0.0094

Standard deviation: 0.372

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 1987

End: 2004

Width: 18

Range: -0.263763308525085 - 2.57514190673828

Format: Numeric

Description

Universe

1980-1995

Source of information

The following variables are from Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine (1999). They are averages over the period 1980-95, unless otherwise noted

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

Index of financial structure. It is the average of the deviations from the mean for the inverse of Dbmcap, the inverse of Dbtvt and Tvtover. Higher values indicate a more market-based financial system.

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