Effect on economic growth in the banking sector and capital markets (the study of Islamic Conference member countries)

Achieving long term and sustainable economic growth in any country is made possible by optimal mobilization and allocation of investment resources in the country's national economy. Extensive and efficient financial markets, in particular efficient capital markets, are essential to achieve this goal. Market economy-based system at the macro level is established on four markets (product market, labor market, money market, and capital market) which among them, two markets (money market and capital market) are associated with the financial sector. The second coin of any country’s economy is its financial sector, which is in fact complementary to the real sector of the economy. The optimal performance of an economic system depends on two efficient, complementary, powerful, and supervised financial and real sectors. The collaboration of these two sectors is a necessary and sufficient prerequisite for an optimal economic system.In this study, the effects of banking sector and capital market on economic growth as well as a causal relationship between economic growth and capital market development and banking sector were investigated using the panel data model. The estimation result of the model indicated that during 1995 to 2014, stock market variables had insignificant negative effects on the production and economic growth of the study countries. In other words, according to these results, it could be stated that during the period in question, the stock market had no effect on the economic growth of these countries. In contrast, banking sector variables had significant positive effects on the productions and economic growth of these countries.