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Title: Finance, Governments, and Trade

Author(s): Giuseppe Bertola and Anna Lo Prete

Publication Date: February 2013

Keyword(s): financial reforms, government size, openness and private credit

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics, International Macroeconomics and Public Economics

Abstract: We study how financial transactions may respond to exogenous variation in trade opportunities not only directly, but also through policy channels. In more open economies, governments may find it more difficult to fund and enforce public policies that substitute private financial transactions, and more appealing to deregulate financial markets. We propose a simple theoretical model of such policy-mediated relationships between trade and financial development. Empirically, we document in a country panel dataset that, before the 2007-08 crisis, financial market volumes were robustly and negatively related to the share of government consumption in GDP in regressions that also include indicators of financial regulation and trade openness, and we seek support for a causal interpretation of this result in instrumental variable specifications.

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Bertola, G and Lo Prete, A. 2013. 'Finance, Governments, and Trade'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9338