Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154555 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Occasional Paper No. 102
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We construct, on the basis of an original methodology and database, composite indices to measure domestic financial development in 26 emerging economies, using mature economies as a benchmark. Twenty-two variables are used and grouped according to three broad dimensions: (i) institutions and regulations; (ii) size of and access to financial markets and (iii) market performance. This new evidence aims to fill a gap in the economic literature, which has not thus far developed comparable time series including both emerging and mature economies. In doing so, we provide a quantitative measure of the – usually considerable – scope for the selected emerging countries and regions to “catch up” in financial terms. Moreover, we find evidence that a process of financial convergence towards mature economies has already started in certain emerging economies. Finally, we conduct an econometric analysis showing that different levels of domestic financial development tend to be associated with the building up of external imbalances across countries.
Subjects: 
Financial development
index construction
commodity and oil-exporting countries
G20
major emerging economies
financial catching up
global imbalances.
JEL: 
F3
F4
G1
G2
E21
E22
C82
Document Type: 
Research Report

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