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Granularity in banking and growth : does financial openness matter?
Bremus, Franziska; Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786228
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Finance and income inequality : a review and new evidence
Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975-2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
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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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Unbalanced financial globalization
Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …
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What do we know about the global financial safety net? : a new comprehensive data set
Scheubel, Beatrice; Stracca, Livio - 2016
This paper critically reviews the theoretical basis for the provision of the global financial safety net (GFSN) and provide a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank swap lines and regional financing arrangements) for over...
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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017
This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
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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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Banking in the shadow of bitcoin? : the institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies
Auer, Raphael A.; Farag, Marc; Lewrick, Ulf; Orazem, Lovrenc - 2023
The phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies raises important questions about their footprint on the financial system. What role are traditional financial intermediaries playing in cryptocurrency markets and what drives their engagement? Are new nodes emerging? We help answer these questions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250401
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Globalization and the (mis)governance of nations
Blouin, Arthur; Ghosal, Sayantan; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2012 - This vers.: December 2011
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, "disciplines" governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … "golden straitjacket". However, globalization may also "overdiscipline" governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …
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