Decomposing the Effects of Financial Liberalization

Decomposing the Effects of Financial Liberalization
Author: Romain Ranciere
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2006
Genre: Free trade
ISBN:

We present a new empirical decomposition of the effects of financial liberalization on economic growth and on the incidence of crises. Our empirical estimates show that the direct effect of financial liberalization on growth by far outweighs the indirect effect via a higher propensity to crisis. We also discuss several models of financial liberalization and growth whose predictions are consistent with our empirical findings.

Financial Crises in Emerging Markets

Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
Author: Reuven Glick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2001-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521800204

The essays in this volume analyze causes of financial crises in emerging markets and different policy responses.

Contemporary Issues in Financial Economics

Contemporary Issues in Financial Economics
Author: Rita Biswas
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2023-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1801178402

Volume 37 of Research in Finance, Contemporary Issues in Financial Economics, presents an extensive collection of chapters that combine real world studies and theories of finance to investigate a variety of topics.

Global Shock, Risks, and Asian Financial Reform

Global Shock, Risks, and Asian Financial Reform
Author: Iwan J. Azis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1783477946

The growth of financial markets has clearly outpaced the development of financial market regulations. With growing complexity in the world of finance, and the resultant higher frequency of financial crises, all eyes have shifted toward the current inad

Financial Repression is Knocking at the Door, Again

Financial Repression is Knocking at the Door, Again
Author: Mr.Etibar Jafarov
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 151351248X

Financial repression (legal restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations) was widely used in the past but was largely abandoned in the liberalization wave of the 1990s, as widespread support for interventionist policies gave way to a renewed conception of government as an impartial referee. Financial repression has come back on the agenda with the surge in public debt in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, and some countries have reintroduced administrative ceilings on interest rates. By distorting market incentives and signals, financial repression induces losses from inefficiency and rent-seeking that are not easily quantified. This study attempts to assess some of these losses by estimating the impact of financial repression on growth using an updated index of interest rate controls covering 90 countries over 45 years. The results suggest that financial repression poses a significant drag on growth, which could amount to 0.4-0.7 percentage points.

Financial Liberalization and Financial Fragility

Financial Liberalization and Financial Fragility
Author: Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 53
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: Bancos
ISBN:

A study of 53 countries during 1980-95 finds that financial liberalization increases the probability of a banking crisis, but less so where the institutional environment is strong. In particular, respect for the rule of law, a low level of corruption, and good contract enforcement are relevant institutional characteristics. the data also show that, after liberalization, financially repressed countries tend to have improved financial development even if they experience a banking crisis. This is not true for financially restrained countries. This paper’s results support a cautious approach to financial liberalization where institutions are weak, even if macroeconomic stabilization has been achieved.

Globalization at Risk

Globalization at Risk
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300157312

History has declared globalization the winner of the 20th century. Globalization connected the world and created wealth unimaginable in the wake of the Second World War. But the financial crisis of 2008-09 has now placed at risk the liberal economic policies behind globalization. Engulfing the entire world, the crisis gave new fuel to the skeptics of the benefits of economic integration. Policy responses seem to favor anti-globalizers. New regulations could balkanize the global financial system, while widespread protectionist impulses might undo the Doha Round. Issues from climate change to national security may be used as convenient excuses to keep imports out, keep jobs at home, and to clamp down on global capital. Will globalization triumph or perish in the 21st century? What reforms make sense in the post-crisis world?International economists Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Kati Suominen argue that globalization has been a force of great good, one that needs to be actively advanced and honed. Drawing on the latest economic analyses, they reveal the drivers and effects of global finance and trade, lay out the key risks to globalization, and offer a practical policy roadmap for managing the challenges while increasing the gains. Vital reading for anyone in business, finance, foreign affairs, or economics, Globalization at Risk is sure to advance public debate on this defining issue of the 21st century.

Reluctant Regulators

Reluctant Regulators
Author: Leo F. Goodstadt
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9888083252

The 2007-2009 global financial crisis was predictable and avoidable, but American and British regulators chose not to intervene. They failed to implement their own policies because of an Anglo-American "regulatory culture" of non-intervention that dominated financial regulation worldwide. Hong Kong--the international financial center of an increasingly prosperous China--defied world opinion and made stability its priority. This policy ensured Hong Kong's robust performance during the last 15 years, and it made possible Hong Kong's impressive contributions to financing China's economic take-off and to the modernization of its financial institutions.Reluctant Regulatorsis a scathing indictment of regulatory inertia in the West. It provides original insights into the causes of financial crises and pays special attention to China's attempts at reform and Hong Kong's place in China's financial modernization. Leo F. Goodstadtwas chief policy adviser to the Hong Kong Government as head of its Central Policy Unit (1989-1997) and has had an extensive consultancy practice in Asian banking. He has written widely on the global financial crisis and on China's economic development.

A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and (In)Equality

A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and (In)Equality
Author: Fikret Čaušević
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319514032

This book focuses on the impact of financial liberalisation and globalisation on economic growth and inequality worldwide over the past quarter century. It places a particular emphasis on the first fourteen years of this century. It begins by exploring certain assumptions developed as a result of early works in the field, providing a critical review of some of the most important academic works published over the past twenty years. It then goes on to present a comparative measurement of the economic performance of key countries for which data is available in the World Bank database, including G-10 countries, EU countries, and fastest growing countries like China, India, and small-open oil-producing economies.