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Book Essays on Financial Integration  Capital Goods  and Growth

Download or read book Essays on Financial Integration Capital Goods and Growth written by Jessica F Madariaga and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Money and Finance in Economic Growth and Development

Download or read book Money and Finance in Economic Growth and Development written by Ronald I. McKinnon and published by Marcel Dekker. This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook tracing the role of the monetary system and financial system in economic growth and development - covers financial policy in developing countries, the cost of inflation and approaches to deflation, the effects of economic integration and the international monetary system on local finance and monetary policy, and includes perspectives for coordination within the EC. References.

Book Essays on Financial Integration and Growth

Download or read book Essays on Financial Integration and Growth written by Asli Leblebicioglu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on Finance and Economic Growth

Download or read book Essays on Finance and Economic Growth written by Lai Wei and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Essays on Finance and Economic Growth: International Capital Markets and Corporate Innovation" by Lai, Wei, 魏錸, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This thesis consists of two essays on finance and economic growth. Using the passage and the enforcement of capital market laws, the essays study whether and how the development of international capital markets can influence corporate innovation, a vital source for long-term economic growth around the world. In the first essay, I study the question: Do legal restrictions on insider trading accelerate or slow technological innovation? Based on over 75,000 industry-country- year observations across 94 economies from 1976 to 2006, I find that enforcing insider trading laws spurs innovation, as measured by patent intensity, scope, impact, generality, and originality. Consistent with theories that insider trading slows innovation by impeding the valuation of innovative activities, the relation between enforcing insider trading laws and innovation is larger in industries that are naturally innovative and opaque, and equity issuances also rise much more in these industries after a country enforces its insider trading laws. In the second essay, I examine the effect of activating M&A markets on the rate of technological innovation, using staggered adoption of international M&A laws. Based on more than 65,000 industry-country-year observations across 46 economies from 1976 to 2006, I find that adopting the M&A laws increases innovation in the high-tech industries of a country, as measured by patent intensity, scope, impact, generality, and originality. The results are consistent with the incentives provided by an active M&A market that amplifies the valuation of and returns to innovation, and boosts exit liquidity for the entrepreneurs and corporate investors. I also find that M&A volume increases in the high-tech industries, and the improvement of innovation is mainly contributed by the private firms. Subjects: Capital market - Law and legislation Technological innovations Economic development

Book Global Capital Markets

Download or read book Global Capital Markets written by Maurice Obstfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Book Three Essays on Growth and Development with Financial Market

Download or read book Three Essays on Growth and Development with Financial Market written by Inka Brahmantyo Yusgiantoro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this dissertation is to understand the role of financial market in economic development, particularly its economy-wide impact on income inequality, poverty, and employment. To accomplish this task, a dynamic computable general equilibrium (FCGE) model with linkage to the financial market is constructed, which conforms to the specific developing economy analyzed in this dissertation. In the first chapter, I construct the model to evaluate the distribution and poverty impact of saving and investment imbalances. I apply the model framework to a financial social accounting matrix data from Indonesia, an open market economy that has experienced persistent trend of excessive domestic savings since the 1997 East Asia financial crisis. The model is calibrated for 2006-10 such that the equilibrium solutions reproduce benchmark data on key macroeconomic indicators. Counterfactual scenarios are simulated to derive conclusions about the implication of excess saving on macroeconomic performances and welfare. The results indicate that when banks increase their portfolio share of risk-free financial assets, credit channeled to private sector's investment is reduced, which leads to higher income inequality, slower pace of poverty reduction, and higher rate of unemployment. I conclude that an expansionary monetary policy offers an effective way to respond an excess saving trend in order to achieve sustainable and equitable growth. The second chapter examines rebalancing strategies for sustainable and inclusive growth in Indonesia. It has been revealed in the previous chapter that excess saving trend in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis has ripple effects on income distribution, poverty reduction, and employment creation. Therefore, policy options that emphasize the quality and growth of both private and public investment should be of utmost importance to improve saving and investment imbalances in the economy. Further rebalancing efforts should also include promoting more public spending in rural areas, enhancing good governance on public outlays, increasing economic efficiency and productivity, sharpening comparative advantage, and expanding intra-regional trade. Finally, counterfactual scenarios are experimented with the use of dynamic FCGE model to highlight the significance of developing Indonesia's capital goods industries in order to reduce reliance on imports and increase employment in productive sectors. In the third chapter, an extended version of the dynamic FCGE model is employed to examine asset price bubble and evaluate its policy implication. Using general equilibrium as a basis for analysis, I generate an endogenous stock price bubble in the model economy through balance sheet adjustments. If corporate sector were to limit its leverage activities, excessive asset growth could be avoided and stability of the macroeconomic performances would be maintained. However, such case does not typically apply to low interest rate condition and strong business cycle trend, so I investigate policy simulations for fiscal restriction, monetary contraction, and policy mix to mitigate the impact of potential repercussions that stock price bubble can generate in the economy. The results indicate that standalone monetary policy is the most favorable option to implement corrective measures in preserving the natural growth of output, consumption and investment while minimizing the deteriorating welfare impact of policy enactment.

Book Three Essays in Economics

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  • Author : Nikolaus Valentin Hildebrand
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  • Release : 2019
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  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Three Essays in Economics written by Nikolaus Valentin Hildebrand and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three chapters. I, first, study the long-run growth of finance. I construct comprehensive national financial balance sheets, financial accounts and production accounts for twelve advanced economies over the past two centuries using hundreds of historical sources. Financial asset-to-output ratios more than quintuple while the output share of finance industry more than quadruples. Despite this dramatic growth in the volume of finance, financial deepening is slow and the structure of finance is stable. Financial growth over the past two centuries is primarily driven by capital formation. These results shed new light on the recent dramatic expansion of financial assets, services, and debt, and directly link these secular trends to an ongoing debate on rising wealth-income ratios and inequality. The second chapter, joint with Johannes Hermle, studies the impact of a male breadwinner norm on gender inequality. We develop a marriage market matching model featuring a male breadwinner norm - a discontinuity in husbands' marginal utility from spousal income. We predict that a norm should cause a concave kink in households' relative income distribution, a kinked increase in the divorce probability and a kinked increase in household good provision by females at the point where both spouses earn the same. We test these predictions using large administrative tax data from Germany. Consistent with the presence of a male breadwinner norm, we find a sharp kink in the relative income distribution at the 50% threshold as well as a crowd-out of couples with a female primary earner relative to random matching. The third chapter studies the evolution of financial systems in common and civil law countries since 1870. I show that, In line with legal origins theory, civil law countries have always had significantly smaller capital markets, smaller financial sectors and more bank-reliant financial systems than common law countries. Convergence immediately prior to World War I can be explained by increased financial integration and free capital movement, while financial fragmentation and shocks to the capital stock during and after the war help explain the strong divergence afterwards.

Book Essays on International Comovements of Financial Markets

Download or read book Essays on International Comovements of Financial Markets written by Yusuke Tateno and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International portfolio diversification is beneficial only if asset returns are not significantly correlated across countries. Therefore, it is essential for investors who want to make an appropriate portfolio selection to understand the nature of asset return correlations. This thesis consists of three essays on international comovements of financial markets. The first essay analyzes the effects of heterogeneous beliefs and learning on international comovements of equity returns and portfolio rebalancing mechanism. This essay develops a continuous-time general equilibrium model in a two-asset and two-good economy with two representative agents, who differ in perceived rates of output growth and accuracy of beliefs. The equilibrium correlations of equity returns across counties and optimal portfolios are expressed in terms of the differences in beliefs. The main findings are: (1) the differences in perceived rates of output growth generate equity home or foreign bias, resulting in lower crosscountry equity return correlations; and (2) the volatilities of optimal portfolios and capital flows increase with the differences in perceived output growth and with the differences in accuracy of beliefs. The second essay studies the effects of trade costs in goods market on international comovements of equity markets and those on equity home bias. This essay develops a continuous-time general equilibrium model in a two-country, two-asset, and two-good setting where international trade of goods is costly. I solve for the optimal portfolios and the equilibrium correlations of cross-country equity returns and analyze how they change depending on the size of trade costs, the coeiffcient of risk aversion, and the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign goods. It is found that the cross-country equity return correlations decrease with the size of trade costs. This result is robust to different sizes of trade costs and asymmetry related to potential growth and consumer preferences. It is also found that the size of the trade costs and other parameter values determine whether trade costs would generate equity home bias or foreign bias. The third essay is devoted to an empirical analysis of the effects of financial integration on international comovements of financial markets. The essay provides a characterization of synchronization among 24 countries over the period 1980-2003. A country-pair panel instrumental variables framework is employed to explain time-varying bilateral correlations among national stock returns, by utilizing the dataset on trade costs in Fitzgerald (2008). It is found that finnancial integration driven by reduction of trade costs leads to a higher degree of synchromization across stock markets.

Book Debt  Deficits  and Exchange Rates

Download or read book Debt Deficits and Exchange Rates written by Helmut Reisen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates presents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current international monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with the debt problems of developing countries, including the growth of domestic public debt, means of hedging a country's debt portfolio against key currency fluctuations, evidence on the debt overhang hypothesis, an evaluation of the Brady Plan, and how to attract foreign direct investment. This is followed by essays on financial opening which discuss the impact of alternative exchange rate regimes during financial integration, the degree of financial openness in Korea and Taiwan, an appropriate strategy for the liberalization of capital flows, and the relationship between financial opening and capital flows. The final part underlines the need for exchange rate management. Issues considered include New Zealand's experience with a pure float, the use of the theory of optimal currency areas to assess whether Asian countries should peg to the Yen, institutional features of macroeconomic management in Asia, and how Latin America should respond to heavy capital flows. Bringing together under one cover a wealth of analysis, comment and argument by a leading international scholar, this volume will be welcomed by students, teachers and policymakers as an important contribution to understanding international monetary problems in the developing world.

Book Finance and Growth

Download or read book Finance and Growth written by Ross Levine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper reviews, appraises, and critiques theoretical and empirical research on the connections between the operation of the financial system and economic growth. While subject to ample qualifications and countervailing views, the preponderance of evidence suggests that both financial intermediaries and markets matter for growth and that reverse causality alone is not driving this relationship. Furthermore, theory and evidence imply that better developed financial systems ease external financing constraints facing firms, which illuminates one mechanism through which financial development influences economic growth. The paper highlights many areas needing additional research"--NBER website

Book Essays on Capital and Economic Growth

Download or read book Essays on Capital and Economic Growth written by Areendam Chanda and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Essays on Financial Integration and Heterogeneity

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Integration and Heterogeneity written by Christian Matthias Friedrich and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on Financial Integration

Download or read book Essays on Financial Integration written by Ricardo Correa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on Financial Development and Economic Growth

Download or read book Essays on Financial Development and Economic Growth written by Reem Abdulaziz Lanjawi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: