Financial Globalization and Financial Development in Latin America

This paper examines the impact on financial development of financial globalization in Latin America. An empirical test is elaborated with new indicators of financial globalization and financial development, closer to theoretical and conceptual framework. A dynamic panel data model is employed; the principal results suggest, in general, that financial globalization has no positive and significant relationship with the process of growth and development of the financial system in Latin America, although, exerts corporate governance and encourages diversification of risk