“…McKinnon (1973), Shaw (1973), Gupta (1984), King and Levine (1993), Levine and Zervos (1998), Rousseau and Watchel (1998), Rousseau (1999), Levine, Loayza and Beck (2000), Xu (2000), Arestis, Demetriades and Luintel (2001), Graff (2002), Calderon and Liu (2003), Ghirmay (2004), Christopoulos and Tsionas (2004), Rioja and Valev (2004), Beck and Levine (2004), Caporale, Howells and Soliman (2005), Shan (2005), Abu Bader and Abu-Qarn (2008), Enisan and Olufisayo (2009), Akinlo and Egbetunde (2010), Cooray (2010), Osuala et al (2013), Herwartz and Walle (2014), Seven and Yetkiner (2016), Durusu-Çiftci, İspir and Yetkiner (2017), Bayar et al (2018), Bekele and Degu (2021) found results that support the supply-leading hypothesis. A recent study by Wen et al (2021) investigates the effect of financial development on different economic growth indicators THE NEXUS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ACROSS DEVELOPING ECONOMIES with the data of 120 countries for the period 1997 to 2017. The results contradict the traditional supplylending hypothesis and reveal a negative impact of financial development on economic growth.…”