Growth and Structural Reforms : : A New Assessment / / Lone Engbo Christiansen, Thierry Tressel, Martin Schindler

• Autore: Christiansen Lone Engbo
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 52 p
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Finance; Exports and Imports; Inflation; Macroeconomics; Production and Operations Management; Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements; Production; Cost; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Price Level; Deflation; International economics; Capital account; Total factor productivity; Capital account liberalization; Personal income; Balance of payments; Industrial productivity; Income; Prices
• Soggetto geografico: Estonia, Republic of
• Altri autori: TresselThierry SchindlerMartin
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but only in middle-income countries. In contrast, we do not find any systematic positive relationship between capital account liberalization and economic growth. Moreover, the effect of domestic financial reforms on economic growth in middle-income countries is explained by improvements in measured aggregate TFP growth, not by higher aggregate investment. We present evidence that variation in the quality of property rights helps explain the heterogeneity of the effectiveness of financial and trade reforms in developing countries. The evidence suggests that sufficiently developed property rights are a precondition for reaping the benefits of economic reform. Our results are robust to endogeneity bias and a number of alternative specifications.
• Titolo autorizzato: Growth and Structural Reforms
• ISBN: 1-4623-7391-7; 1-4527-4299-5; 9786612844713; 1-4518-7429-4; 1-282-84471-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788221103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2009/284