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Capital account liberalization and its effects on economic growth and financial instability: the exante orthodox models were wrong

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  • Diego Garcia Angelico
  • Giuliano Contendo de Oliveira

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The financial crises in emerging economies during the 1990s and 2000s propelled academia and multilateral institutions to investigate whether the promised benefits of capital account liberalization were being delivered or not. In the course of empirical studies on the subject, many ex ante theoretical assumptions on financial globalization were demystified, and previously unknown risks and dysfunctions began to be evidenced. This article analyzes the main empirical studies on the effects of financial globalization published in the last two decades and shows that the main conventional assumptions that were built to theoretically base the capital account liberalization processes that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s were wrong. JEL Classification: F3; F4; F6.

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  • Diego Garcia Angelico & Giuliano Contendo de Oliveira, 2020. "Capital account liberalization and its effects on economic growth and financial instability: the exante orthodox models were wrong," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 40(4), pages 669-688.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:40:y:2020:i:4:p:669-688:id:2079
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    Keywords

    Financial globalization; capital account liberalization; mainstream economics; financial instability; emerging economies;
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    JEL classification:

    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization

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