Rethinking Financial Deepening: Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets

Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak (), Papa N'Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Diana Ayala Pena, Ran Bi, Yuan Gao, Annette Kyobe, Lam Nguyen, Christian Saborowski, Katsiaryna Svirydzenka and Seyed Reza Yousefi

No 2015/008, IMF Staff Discussion Notes from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains for growth and stability from financial deepening remain large for most emerging markets, but there are limits on size and speed. When financial deepening outpaces the strength of the supervisory framework, it leads to excessive risk taking and instability. Encouragingly, the set of regulatory reforms that promote financial depth is essentially the same as those that contribute to greater stability. Better regulation—not necessarily more regulation—thus leads to greater possibilities both for development and stability.

Keywords: SDN; financial crisis; capital market; insurance market liberalization; marginal costs and benefits; bank credit; private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2015-05-04
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