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Arcand etal., 2015; Cournède and Denk, 2015). More credit is not always good
for growth. Arcand etal. (2015) and Cecchetti and Kharroubi (2012) evidence
a tipping point–around 80%–100% of GDP–beyond which further expansion
of credit to the private sector has a negative eect on output growth. According
to Schularick and Taylor (2012), lagged credit growth is a predictor of nancial
crises and nancial stability risks increase with the size of the nancial sector.
There are ve main explanations for the non- linearities in the nance- growth
nexus (Coeuré, 2014; ECB, 2018). At high levels of nancial development:
− a further deepening of nancial markets may be associated with a type of -
nancial serv