Dynamic relationship between inflation and financial development

This paper studies the long- and short-run relationships between inflation and financial development. Applying the Pooled Mean Group estimator of Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (1999, Journal of the American Statistical Association 94, 621-634) to unbalanced panel data for 87 countries over the period 1960-2005, we find that a negative long-run relationship between inflation and financial development coexists with a positive short-run relationship. However, when the data are split into different income or inflation groups, these results can be observed only in low-income or low-inflation economies.