Artikel

Financial regulation, financial globalization, and the synchronization of economic activity

We analyze the impact of financial globalization on business cycle synchronization utilizing a proprietary database on banks’ international exposure for industrialized countries during 1978–2006. Theory makes ambiguous predictions and identification has been elusive due to lack of bilateral time-varying financial linkages data. In contrast to conventional wisdom and previous empirical studies, we identify a strong negative effect of banking integration on output synchronization, conditional on global shocks and country-pair heterogeneity. Similarly, we show divergent economic activity as a result of higher integration using an exogenous de-jure measure of integration based on financial regulations that harmonized EU markets.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: The Journal of Finance ; ISSN: 1540-6261 ; Volume: 68 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1179-1228 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Economic Integration
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Subject
banking integration
Co-movement
contagion
fluctuations
finance

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem
Papaioannou, Elias
Peydró, José-Luis
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Hoboken, NJ
(when)
2013

DOI
doi:10.1111/jofi.12025
Handle
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem
  • Papaioannou, Elias
  • Peydró, José-Luis
  • Wiley
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2013

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