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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...

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On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus : A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets

Abid, Abir - 2020

We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR perspective used for the first time in this context. Focusing on Emerging Market Economies (EME), our noteworthy findings postulate that (a) both home and foreign EPU shocks...

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality

Komura, Mizuki - 2018

induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world …

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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets Under Frictional Financial Markets

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2010

Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke andGertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search...

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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market

Dickinson, David L. - 2017

Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...

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International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Egger, Hartmut - 2006

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Batista, Catia - 2010

How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...

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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …

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