01937cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005402 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451871005 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Prasad, Eswar. Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth? / Eswar Prasad, Marco Terrones, Ayhan Kose. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (39 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 provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital account openness has a robust positive effect on TFP growth. The effect of de facto financial integration on TFP growth is less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities boost TFP growth while external debt is actually negatively correlated with TFP growth. The negative relationship between external debt liabilities and TFP growth is attenuated in economies with higher levels of financial development and better institutions. Mode of access: Internet Kose, Ayhan. Terrones, Marco. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/242 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/242/001.2008.issue-242-en.xml IMF e-Library