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markets. In line with a large recent literature, it is reasonable to expect that financial integration will have a ‘growth … dividend’ in Europe. This Paper attempts to quantify this growth dividend, using both industry and firm-level data to estimate … the empirical relationship between financial market development and growth, and to gauge how it will distribute itself …
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We propose a new, valuation-based measure of world equity market segmentation. While we observe decreased levels of segmentation in many developing countries, the level of segmentation is still significant. In contrast to previous research, we characterize the factors that account for variation...
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perspective on the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, both in terms of growth and volatility. Overall, our critical … widely-cited claims that financial globalization by itself leads to deeper and more costly developing country growth crises. …The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent …
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2004) argues that, in the presence of credit market imperfections, financial market globalization may lead to a steady …
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Academics' view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an under-appreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from...
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probability an individual starts their own business, favours entry, increases competition, and promotes growth of firms. As …
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This paper exploits arbitrage conditions for bills of exchange with different maturities to provide new evidence on commercial interest rates in Amsterdam, London, and Paris during the 18th century. The lesson that emerges is that commercial interest rates were very low in all three centers and...
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The purpose of this paper is twofold: it analyses how far the external opening-up process of the Spanish economy that started with its integration into the EEC in 1986 has led to a higher effective degree of capital mobility; and it examines what kind of capital flows, exchange-rate pressures...
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A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the … economic growth by raising total factor productivity, but its impact is only transitory. Several predictions on the evolution …
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of productivity growth, but the effect depends critically on a country's level of financial development. For countries … with relatively low levels of financial development, exchange rate volatility generally reduces growth, whereas for … rate volatility, and outliers. We also offer a simple monetary growth model in which real exchange rate uncertainty …
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