Andini, CorradoAndini, Monica2018-06-262018-06-262007-10Andini, Corrado; Andini, Monica (2007). Financial development and long-run growth: is the cross-sectional evidence robust?, "Working Paper Series", 10, 13 pp.. Ponta Delgada: Universidade dos Açores, CEEAplA-A.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4755In a seminal paper, Levine et al. (2000) provide cross-sectional evidence on the causal positive impact of financial development on the mean of the conditional long-run growth distribution, in a sample of 71 countries. Using the same data-set, we argue that the impact of financial development of the median of the conditional growth distribution is doubtful. In addition, we find that the mean-based results due to Levine et al. (2000) are not robust to the presence of three outliers: Korea (Republic of), Malta and Taiwan.engEconomic GrowthFinancial Developmentworking paper