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Financial Integration in Emerging Asia: Challenges and Prospects

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  • Cyn‐Young PARK
  • Jong‐Wha LEE

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Using both quantity- and price-based measures of financial integration, this paper shows an increasing degree of financial openness and integration in emerging Asian markets. This paper also assesses the impact of a regional shock relative to a global shock on local equity and bond markets. The findings of this paper suggest that the region’s equity markets are integrated more globally than regionally, although the degrees of both regional and global integration have increased significantly since the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis. However, emerging Asia’s local currency bond markets remain generally segmented, being neither regionally nor globally integrated. A case can be made for the benefits of increased regional integration of financial markets. Financial integration at the regional level allows for the region’s economies to benefit from allocation efficiency and risk diversification. The findings of this paper suggest that policymakers in the region must strike the right balance between maximizing the net benefits from regional and global financial openness, and minimizing the potential costs of financial contagion and crisis.
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  • Cyn‐Young PARK & Jong‐Wha LEE, 2011. "Financial Integration in Emerging Asia: Challenges and Prospects," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 6(2), pages 176-198, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiapr:v:6:y:2011:i:2:p:176-198
    DOI: j.1748-3131.2011.01193.x
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    JEL classification:

    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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