“…Hondroyiannis et al (2005), while examining the relationship between the development of the banking system and the stock market and economic performance in Greece, using VAR models, find that there exists a bidirectional causality between finance and growth in the long run. Other empirical studies, whose findings are consistent with the finance-led growth hypothesis, include those of Jung (1986), Spears (1992), King and Levine (1993), Odedokun (1996), Ahmed and Ansari (1998), Ghali (1999), Xu (2000), Jalilian and Kirkpatrick (2002), Calderon and Lin (2003), Bhattacharya and Sivasubramanian (2003), Suleiman and Abu-Qaun (2008), and more recently, Habibullah and Eng (2006), amongst others.…”