Welfare gains from financial liberalization

Financial liberalization has been a controversial issue, as empirical evidence for growth enhancing effects is mixed. Here, we find sizable welfare gains from liberalization (cost to repression), though the gain in economic growth is ambiguous. We take the view that financial liberalization is a gov...

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Main Authors: Townsend, Robert (Contributor), Ueda, Kenichi (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011-03-18T13:31:26Z.
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