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by ldayley 5104 days ago
The paper linked in the article also indicates that it isn't exclusively about talent, but that scarce capital can also be misallocated towards the financial sector during financial booms:

"Second, we note that finance requires financing. That is, financial intermediaries compete with non-financial intermediaries for financial resources. This leads us to conjecture that firms that rely more heavily on external finance will be in more direct competition with the financial intermediaries themselves for resources."

( from http://sirc.rbi.org.in/downloads/4Cecchetti.pdf )