Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222453 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of International Money and Finance [ISSN:] 0261-5606 [Volume:] 107 [Article No.:] 102217 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2020
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
Motivated by the action plan for a European capital markets union (CMU), this paper analyzes the potential for legal harmonization and convergence in institutional quality to affect capital market integration. Based on hand-collected data on the implementation of EU-directives, our analysis yields three key insights. First, legal harmonization promotes portfolio equity holdings. Second, discrepancies in institutional quality matter primarily for cross-border debt positions. Third, the relationship between external investments and harmonization varies significantly across sectors: the non-bank financial corporations, which account for a large share of portfolio positions, react more to institutional harmonization than do banks and the non-financial private sector.
Subjects: 
Capital market integration
Legal harmonization
Sectoral effects
JEL: 
E02
F21
G15
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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