Kharroubi, Enisse2012-03-302012-03-302007-09-30World Bank Economic Review1564-698Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4465How do volatility and liquidity crises affect growth? When credit is constrained, a bias toward short-term debt can arise in financing long-term investments, generating maturity mismatches and leading potentially to liquidity crises. The frequency of liquidity crises (“abnormal” volatility) and the volatility of growth (“normal” volatility) are found to have independent negative effects on growth. Financial development however dampens the growth cost of volatility, but only in the case of normal volatility. The growth cost of volatility therefore depends critically on the composition of normal and abnormal volatility, the latter being more costly for growth.CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGOcorporate debteconomic developmentfinancial crisesFinancial developmentfinancial marketsInternational Monetary Fundliquidity crisesMacroeconomicsnormal volatilityVolatilityJournal ArticleWorld Bank10.1596/4465