This post is part of a series highlighting the key findings of the Global Financial Development Report 2015 | 2016: Long-Term Finance. You can view the entire series at gfdr2015.
Policy makers debate about which financial institutions they need to foster to create a supply of long-term finance. One difficulty in this debate is the lack of evidence about the behavior of different types of financial intermediaries. Chapter 4 of the Global Financial Development Report (GFDR) tries to fill this void by compiling different pieces of evidence from around the world.