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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160313
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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?
Saka, Orkun - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868012
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136951
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Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain : A Panel Data Analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha - 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120427
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325040
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Role Reversal in Global Finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2011
I document that emerging markets have cast off their "original sin" – their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119287
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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers
Ha, Jongrim - 2020
We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840446
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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey
Siebert, Stanley - 2006
efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779043
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915739