Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility

Anne Epaulard and Aude Pommeret ()

Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie from Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to evaluate the welfare gains from financial integration for developing and emerging 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 FDI. The model is calibrated on 32 emerging 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 the existing wealth. Compared to financial autarky, actual levels of financial integration translate into slightly higher annual growth rates (around 0.4 percentage points per year.)

Keywords: financial integration; risk-sharing; endogenous growth; stochastic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 F20 F3 F36 F43 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2004-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-fin and nep-mac
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Journal Article: Financial Integration, Growth and Volatility (2016)
Working Paper: Financial Integration, Growth and Volatility (2016)
Working Paper: Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility (2005)
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