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This study examines whether financial integration affects the finance–institutions–growth nexus using a sample of 145 countries from 1995 to 2021. Financial globalization continues to be a dominant phenomenon, despite the concerns on contagion and capital flight issues. We argue that financial integration can potentially crowd out the positive growth effects from both financial development and institutions. Using a dynamic panel estimator to control for endogeneity and simultaneity and multidimensional measures of financial development, institutional quality, and financial integration, we find a nonlinear relationship. More specifically, financial integration is growth-enhancing up to a threshold. Additionally, we find the marginal effects of finance and institutions to be insignificant above this threshold.
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We calculate the threshold as such:\({\text{Threshold~level}}\left( {{\text{fint}}_{{{\text{it}}}} } \right) = \beta _{3} /\left( {2 \times \beta _{4} } \right)\) .
We examine the marginal effects at 50% above and below the threshold arbitrarily.
\(\frac{{\partial y_{{it}} }}{{\partial fd_{{it}}^{j} }} = \beta _{1} + \beta _{4} {\text{fint}}_{{it}} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\text{and}}{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} \frac{{\partial y_{{it}} }}{{\partial ins_{{it}} }} = \beta _{2} + \beta _{4} {\text{fint}}_{{it}}\).
While the system GMM model is an efficient estimator and reduce biased estimates, we report the Driscoll–Kraay estimator for comparative purposes.
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Haini, H., Razak, L.A., Wei Loon, P. et al. Re-examining the finance–institutions–growth nexus: does financial integration matter?. Econ Change Restruct 56, 1895–1924 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-023-09498-5
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