“…To cope with the rapid financial development, various scholars have extended previous finance-growth studies by including additional financial sectors and segments (e.g. Obstfeld, 1994;Levine and Zervos, 1998;Fink, Haiss, Hristoforova, 2006;Haiss and Sümegi, 2008;Haiss and Pantel 2008), industry effects (Rajan and Zingales, 1998), the role of law (LaPorta et al, 1998), and integration and liberalisation effects (Rusek, 2004;Haiss and Fink, 2006;Pichler et al, 2008). Significant differences could be caused by the growth of derivatives exchanges, by the process of liberalization and integration within the financial markets, the appearance of new institutional investors as pension funds, insurance companies and hedge funds, and by new techniques of taking and transferring risk.…”