The Effects of IT and Financial Development on Economic Growth in BRICS-T Countries: Insights from the Solow Growth Model

The aim of the study is to examine the impact of IT and financial development on economic growth in BRICS-T countries for the period 1990-2022 using the panel quantile technique. For this purpose, IT technology and financial development variables were added to the basic Solow model. According to the findings, the impact of physical capital stock on economic growth is positive in all quantiles. The effect of population growth on economic growth is significant starting from 0.4 quantile and the negative effect increases as the quantile level increases. Information technology, which is the subject of the study, positively affects economic growth and this effect decreases as the quantile level increases. The variables we used to represent the level of financial development, financial institutions have a positive but statistically insignificant coefficient sign, while financial markets have a statistically significant but negative coefficient sign. This negative effect increases as the quantile level increases.