“…The relevance of the financial sector for economic growth has been studied empirically by analyzing the relationships between banking, stock markets and growth at country levels (Roubini and Sala-i-Martin, 1992;King and Levine, 1993;Levine and Zervos, 1998;Valickova, Havranek and Horvath, 2014), and at industry levels (Rajan and Zingales, 1998;Braun and Larrain, 2005). The studies that include the insurance sector are more recent (among them Webb, Grace and Skipper, 2002;Haiss and Sümegi, 2008;Arena, 2008).…”