1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788697403321

Autore

Mercereau Benoît

Titolo

Financial Integration in Asia : : Estimating the Risk-Sharing Gains for Australia and Other Nations / / Benoît Mercereau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-1649-2

1-4527-9553-3

1-283-51849-X

1-4519-0980-2

9786613830944

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Finance - Asia

Monetary policy - Asia

Exports and Imports

Finance: General

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

Finance

International economics

Investment & securities

Financial integration

Foreign assets

Stocks

Consumption

Capital account



International finance

Investments, Foreign

Economics

Balance of payments

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. FINANCIAL INTEGRATION REDUCES RISK""; ""III. ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY AND DATA""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""Appendix. Data Sources and Construction""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

Holding foreign assets reduces the volatility of a country's income by allowing countries to share risk. Yet, financial integration is limited in Asia. This paper estimates how much Australia and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region would gain from greater financial integration. The results suggest that these welfare gains are large, which argues in favor of a progressive capital account liberalization across the region.