How Risky is Financial Liberalization in the Developing Countries?

40 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2001

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Charles Wyplosz

University of Geneva - Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: March 2001

Abstract

This Paper looks at the effect of domestic and external financial liberalization. Using a sample of 27 developing and developed countries, it studies the exchange market pressure and output gap effects of liberalization. The results show that developing and developed countries differ in many respects. By and large, the effects are significantly stronger in developing countries. Exchange market pressure to be strongly positive as capital flows, but reversals seem to follow systematically. Similarly, the behaviour of the output gap corresponds well to boom and bust cycles. The Paper concludes with a discussion of policy measures desirable to make liberalization safer than it has been so far.

Keywords: Currency crises, liberalization, sequencing

JEL Classification: E40, F30, F40, G20, O10

Suggested Citation

Wyplosz, Charles, How Risky is Financial Liberalization in the Developing Countries? (March 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=264456

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