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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968068403321

Autore

Kose Ayhan

Titolo

Financial Globalization : : A Reappraisal / / Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff, Shang-Jin Wei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613820488

9781462350810

146235081X

9781452770321

1452770328

9781282392052

1282392050

9781451990102

1451990103

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (94 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

PrasadEswar

RogoffKenneth

WeiShang-Jin

Soggetti

International finance

Globalization - Mathematical models

Balance of payments

Capital account liberalization

Current Account Adjustment

Exports and Imports

Finance

Finance: General

Financial integration

Foreign direct investment

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Globalization

Globalization: General

International economics

International Investment

Investments, Foreign

Long-term Capital Movements

Short-term Capital Movements

Stock exchanges

Stock markets



United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"August 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THEORY""; ""III. MEASURING FINANCIAL OPENNESS""; ""IV. PATTERNS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION""; ""V. MACROECONOMIC EVIDENCE ON EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION""; ""VI. HOW DOES THE COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL FLOWS MATTER?""; ""VII. ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES""; ""VIII. COLLATERAL BENEFITS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION""; ""IX. THRESHOLD EFFECTS IN OUTCOMES OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION""; ""X. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels and with a variety of apparently conflicting results. For instance, there is still little robust evidence of the growth benefits of broad capital account liberalization, but a number of recent papers in the finance literature report that equity market liberalizations do significantly boost growth. Similarly, evidence based on microeconomic (firm- or industry-level) data shows some benefits of financial integration and the distortionary effects of capital controls, while the macroeconomic evidence remains inconclusive. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing literature. This framework allows us to provide a fresh synthetic perspective on the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, in terms of both growth and volatility. Overall, our critical reading of the recent empirical literature is that it lends some qualified support to the view that developing countries can benefit from financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support widely cited claims that financial globalization by itself leads to deeper and more costly developing country growth crises.