Financial Integration and Growth in a Risky World

53 Pages Posted: 21 Dec 2015 Last revised: 11 Feb 2023

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Nicholas Coeurdacier

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)

Hélène Rey

London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Pablo Winant

Bank of England

Date Written: December 2015

Abstract

The debate on the benefits of financial integration is revisited in a two-country neoclassical growth model with aggregate uncertainty. Gains from more efficient capital allocation and gains from risk sharing are accounted for simultaneously|together with their interaction. Global numerical methods allow for meaningful welfare comparisons. Gains from integration are quantitatively small, even for riskier and capital scarce emerging economies. These countries import capital for efficiency reasons before exporting it for self-insurance, leading to capital ows and growth reversals along the transition. This opens the door to a richer set of empirical implications than previously considered in the literature.

Suggested Citation

Coeurdacier, Nicholas and Rey, Helene and Winant, Pablo, Financial Integration and Growth in a Risky World (December 2015). NBER Working Paper No. w21817, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2706318

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