Does openness to international financial flows raise productivity growth? / / M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Marco E. Terrones ; authorized for distribution by Stijn Claessens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463614403321
• Autore: Kose M. Ayhan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-4623-7496-4; 1-4527-5916-2; 1-4518-7100-7; 9786612841934; 1-282-84193-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (65 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers; IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/242
• Altri autori (Persone): PrasadEswar; TerronesMarco; ClaessensStijn
• Disciplina: 338.900153535
• Soggetti: Economic development - Econometric models; International finance; Fiscal policy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Methodology and Data; III. Basic Stylized Facts; 1. Growth Accounting for More and Less Financially Open Economies; 2. Growth Accounting for More and Less Financially Open Economies; 3. Growth Accounting for More and Less Financially Open Economies; 1. Sample Statistics: Median Values by Country Group; IV. Regression Results; A. Basic Results on Financial Openness and TFP Growth; 2. Financial Openness and TFP Growth: Cross-Section Regressions; 3. Financial Openness and TFP Growth: Panel Regressions; B. Composition of Flows and Stocks 4. Does the Composition of External Liabilities Matter?; V. Extensions and Robustness Tests; A. Alternative Measures of TFP; 5. Alternative Measures of TFP; B. Alternative Measures of De Jure Capital Account Openness; 6. Alternative Measures of Capital Account Openness; C. Alternative Ways of Splitting the Sample Based on Country Characteristics; 7. Financial Openness and TFP Growth in Non-Industrial Countries; 8. Is There a Threshold Level of Financial Integration?; D. Different Time Horizons; 9. Effects on TFP Growth at Different Horizons; E. An Alternative Specification10. Financial Openness and TFP Growth: Difference-in-Differences; F. Other Controls, Outliers; G. Concluding Remarks; 1a. Summary Statistics; References; Footnotes
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital account openness has a robust positive effect on TFP growth. The effect of de facto financial integration on TFP growth is less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities boost TFP growth while external debt is actually negatively