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Does Financial Openness Promote Economic Integration?

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  • Fabrizio Carmignani

    (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)

  • Abdur Chowdhury

    (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

Abstract

The effect of financial openness on economic integration for two clusters of countries is estimated: the formerly planned economies of Eastern Europe and central Asia (emerging market economies) and some western advanced economies. We focus on two dimensions of economic integration: convergence of per-capita incomes across countries and trade integration. We employ both single equation estimation and system estimation to account for endogenous links between trade integration and income convergence. Results show that in the cluster of emerging market economies, financial openness is a powerful instrument of economic integration. In the group of advanced economies, financial openness effectively facilitates income convergence, but its impact on trade integration is ambiguous.

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  • Fabrizio Carmignani & Abdur Chowdhury, 2007. "Does Financial Openness Promote Economic Integration?," ECE Discussion Papers Series 2007_4, UNECE.
    • Handle: RePEc:ece:dispap:2007_4
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    1. Zivanemoyo Chinzara & Radhika Lahiri & En Te Chen, 2017. "Financial liberalization and sectoral reallocation of capital in South Africa," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 309-356, February.

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    Keywords

    financial openness; economic integration; transition economies; east Europe;
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    JEL classification:

    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • P33 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid

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