Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

6-2005

Subjects

Capital markets, Financial globalization, Monetary policy -- Asia

Abstract

I investigate whether financial openness leads to financial development after controlling for the level of legal/institutional development, and whether trade opening is a precondition for financial opening, focusing on Asia. Utilizing a panel encompassing 87 less developed countries over the period 1980 to 2000, I find that a higher level of financial openness spurs equity market development only if a threshold level of legal development has been attained, a condition prevalent particularly among emerging market Asian countries. On the issue of sequencing, trade openness is found to be a prerequisite for successful inducement of financial development via capital account liberalization.

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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in North American Journal of Economics and Finance. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in North American Journal of Economics and Finance, issue 17(3) (December 2006). Article is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2006.06.008

DOI

10.1016/j.najef.2006.06.008

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20336

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