The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration /

Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of income convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this type of...

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Main Author: Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier
Other Authors: Jeanne, Olivier
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/074
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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