01927cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002293 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451846997 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Terrones, Marco. Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility / Marco Terrones, Eswar Prasad, Ayhan Kose. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output growth has, on average, declined in the 1990s relative to the three preceding decades, we also document that, on average, the volatility of consumption growth relative to that of income growth has increased for more financially integrated developing economies in the 1990s. Second, increasing financial openness is associated with rising relative volatility of consumption, but only up to a certain threshold. The benefits of financial integration in terms of improved risk-sharing and consumption-smoothing possibilities appear to accrue only beyond this threshold. Mode of access: Internet Kose, Ayhan. Prasad, Eswar. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/050 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/050/001.2003.issue-050-en.xml IMF e-Library