The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. With nearly 300 released each year, working papers cover a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
Torsten Sloek, Hali Edison, Luca Ricci, and Ross Levine
Publisher:
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:
August 2002
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451856552.001
ISBN:
9781451856552
ISSN:
1018-5941
Page:
30
This paper uses new data and new econometric techniques to investigate the impact of international financial integration on economic growth and also to assess whether this relationship depends on the level of economic development, financial development, legal system development, government corruption, and macroeconomic policies. Using a wide array of measures of international financial integration on 57 countries and an assortment of statistical methodologies, we are unable to reject the hypothesis that international financial integration does not accelerate economic growth even when controlling for particular economic, financial, institutional, and policy characteristics.
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