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Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility

By Anne Epaulard, Aude Pommeret

April 1, 2005

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Anne Epaulard, and Aude Pommeret. Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the welfare gains from financial integration for developing and emerging market economies. To do so, we build a stochastic endogenous growth model for a small open economy that can (i) borrow from the rest of the world, (ii) invest in foreign assets, and (iii) receive foreign direct investment (FDI). The model is calibrated on 32 emerging market and developing economies for which we evaluate the upper bound for the welfare gain from financial integration. For plausible values of preference parameters and actual levels of financial integration, the mean welfare gain from financial integration is about 10 percent of initial wealth. Compared with financial autarky, actual levels of financial integration translate into slightly higher annual growth rates (around 0.4 percentage point per year.)

Subject: Balance of payments, Consumption, External debt, Financial integration, Financial markets, Foreign direct investment, National accounts, Return on investment

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Autarky economy, Certainty equivalent, Consumption, Consumption-saving decision, Economy benefit, Endogenous Growth, FDI flow, Financial Integration, Foreign direct investment, Gain from FDI, Global, Open economy, Optimal portfolio, Return on investment, Risk premium, Risk-sharing, Stochastic Growth, Welfare gain, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2005/067

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2005067

  • ISBN:

    9781451860863

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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