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Title: The Real Effects of Financial Integration

Author(s): Jean Imbs

Publication Date: March 2004

Keyword(s): financial integration, international business cycles, quantity puzzle and risk sharing

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: Fluctuations in GDP are more synchronized internationally than fluctuations in consumption, and they remain so even between financially-integrated economies, where the ranking should in theory be the reverse. This Paper shows this happens because correlations in GDP fluctuations rise with financial integration. Finance serves to increase international correlations in both consumption and GDP fluctuations, which explains the persistent gap between the two in the data. The positive association between financial integration and GDP correlation constitutes a puzzle, as theory suggests a negative relation if anything. Nevertheless, it prevails in the data even after the effects of finance on trade and specialization are accounted for.

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Imbs, J. 2004. 'The Real Effects of Financial Integration'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4335