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10- Financial development or financial liberalization : growth and (in)stability
effects :
Is financial development an engine of growth and investment ? Is there a cost in
terms of financial instability and crises ? Is there a gain in terms of “insurability” and
“smoothing” of income?
Data :
World Development Indicators,
Global financial development :
http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/variableselection/selectvariables.aspx?so
urce=global-financial-development
Heston-Summers “Penn World Tables”
Barro and Lee : Education
References :
FITA = master thesis MC 2015,
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Levine, R., Loayza, N., & Beck, T. (2000). Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and
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Bussiere, M., & Fratzscher, M. (2008). Financial Openness and Growth: Short‐run Gain, Long‐run
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11- Asymétries européennes
Can it be established that Germany strongly benefited from the EMU to strengthen its export-
oriented economy, especially while pursuing a wage deflation policy at home at the same time
and thus depressing domestic consumption? Did trade flows from Germany to the euro-area
increase more than to the rest of the world (all things equal, e.g. rest of the world exchange rate,
income, ...) ? Same question for capital flows. Did German banks finance real estate booms in
Ireland and Spain as is sometimes claimed ?
Gros, Daniel and Alcidi, Cinzia (2010) Fiscal Policy Coordination and Competitiveness
Surveillance: What solutions to what problems? CEPS Policy Brief 213, September.
http://www.ceps.be/book/fiscal-policy-coordination-and-competitiveness-surveillance-what-
solutions-what-problems
DARVAS, Zsolt (2015) “The grand divergence : global and European current account
surpluses” Bruegel Working paper 2015/08