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Title: 

Do Stock Market Liberalizations Cause Investment Booms?

Authors: Henry, Peter
Issue Date: Apr-2000
Publisher: Journal of Financial Economics
Abstract: Stock market liberalizations lead private investment booms. In a sample of 11 developing countries that liberalized their stock markets, 9 experience growth rates of private investment above their non-liberalization median in the first year after liberalizing. In the second and third years after liberalization, this number is 10 of 11 and 8 of 11, respectively. The mean growth rate of private investment in the three years immediately following stock market liberalization exceeds the sample mean by 22 percentage points. The evidence stands in sharp contrast to recent work that suggests capital account liberalization has no effect on investment.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/31392
Appears in Collections:Peter Henry's Collection

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