Does Globalization Promote Financial Integration in South Asian Economies? Unveiling the Role of Monetary and Fiscal Performance in Internationalization

Amjad Ali, Rehan Ehsan, Marc Audi and Hani Fayad Hamadeh

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Abstract: Presently, monitoring and analyzing financial integration has become a key function and requirement of the financial regulatory bodies and central banks of the countries. It has also been observed that financial integration is important to make the financial system streamlined and efficient which is eventually used to make monetary policies and to judge a country’s financial performance. Financial integration also highlights disruption in the financial system of the country if it does not work properly. This study has examined the impact of globalization on financial integration in the case of South Asian countries from 1996 to 2020. The selected South Asian countries are Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Financial integration is selected as the dependent variable, whereas political instability, globalization, fiscal performance, monetary performance, and economic misery are selected as explanatory variables. PP-FC, ADF-FC, IP&S, and LLC unit root tests have been used to check the stationarity of the variables. Panel least squares and fixed-effect model have been used for examining the dependence of financial integration on selected explanatory variables. The outcomes of unit root tests show that there is the same order of integration among the selected variables of the model i.e. first difference. The results show that level of political instability has a negative and insignificant impact on financial integration. The outcome shows that monetary performance, globalization, and economic misery have positive and significant impacts on financial integration. Fiscal performance has a negative and significant impact on financial integration. Based on the results, it suggested that South countries should make stable monetary and fiscal performance with a rise in globalization to raise financial integration. Moreover, political instability and economic misery should be discouraged for higher financial integration.

Keywords: globalization; financial integration; political instability; monetary performance; fiscal performance; economic misery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F36 F50 F60 O23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-fdg and nep-int
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