Financial Liberalisation, Crises, and Economic Growth

Inkoo Lee and Jonghyup Shin

Finance Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: It has been widely recognized that financial liberalization plays an important role in economic development. Although an expanding body of literature has documented this effect across space and time, the channel through which financial liberalization affects the economic growth remains unclear. This paper employs probit and panel regressions to show that financial liberalization is positively associated with economic growth, with the (positive) direct liberalization effect dominating the (negative) indirect crisis effect. Financial liberalization is expected to increase GDP growth by 0.92 percentage point in the whole sample and by 0.99 percentage point in crisis experienced countries, respectively. Financial liberalization contributes to economic growth even when the sample is restricted to countries that experienced financial crises. We also test the effect of financial liberalization on the interest rates. The result is contrary to our expectation : financial liberalization increases the interest rates. We conjecture that the overshooting in interest rates after a crisis and the removal of interest rate ceiling after liberalization are the main reasons for this phenomenon.

Keywords: financial liberalisation; crises; economic growth; panel; probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C25 F30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-01
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