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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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Who needs foreign banks?
Gros, Daniel - 2003
10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …
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Financial integration and economic growth in Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2023
This study examines the impact of financial integration on economic growth in the case of 31 European countries over the period from 2000 to 2021 using dynamic panel data models. The estimation results provide evidence of significant positive effects of financial integration on economic growth....
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The short-run and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development : some panel evidence for Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2021
This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...
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Does pension privatization increase economic growth? : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe
Altiparmakov, Nikola; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2016
privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These … in Latin America and Eastern Europe and typical "add-on" pension funding in Western Europe and North America. We find no … evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe was associated with higher economic growth. The result …
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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade
Fazio, Giorgio (contributor); MacDonald, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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The impact of financial market frictions on trade flows, capital flows and economic development
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Falvey, Rodney E. - 2011
We introduce financial frictions in a two sector model of international trade with heterogeneous agents. The level of specialization in the economy (economic development) depends on the quality of financial institutions. Underdeveloped financial markets prohibit an economy to specialize in...
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Exchange rate regime, financial market bubbles and long-term growth in China : lessons from Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
The paper argues that persistent current account surpluses and increasing foreign currency-denominated asset positions constitute long-term appreciation expectations on yuan and yen, which have made China and Japan vulnerable to U.S. interest rate cuts and appreciation expectation shocks. For...
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Barriers to global capital allocation
Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …
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Alternative measures for the global financial cycle : do they make a difference?
Tian, Xin; Jacobs, Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2022
We construct several measures for the global financial cycle using dynamic factor models and data for 25 advanced and emerging countries over 1980-2019. Our results suggest that global cycles in asset prices and capital flows are highly similar and synchronized, especially during crisis...
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