Abertura Financeira e a Incidência da Crise Financeira Global de 2008-2009: uma abordagem Bayesiana

Abstract

The objective of this work is to conduct an econometric investigation on the role of financial openness in the incidence of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. The empirical analysis will be carried out for a sample of 72 countries with data covering the period 1990-2009. The econometric methodology used is the Bayesian model averaging (BMA). The work contributes to the literature in two dimensions: i) the bayesian model averaging is used to deal with the problem of uncertainty regarding the set of explanatory variables in models of incidence of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis; ii) furthermore, it uses a broad set of financial openness indices (de jure and de facto) and a broad set of measures of the incidence of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. The results suggest: i) there is no evidence that the level of financial openness of countries in the pre-crisis period is a robust determinant of the incidence of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis; ii) there is evidence that the 2008-2009 global financial crisis had a more severe impact on countries with higher GDP per capita, greater share of manufacturing production in GDP, higher credit growth and higher inflation rate, in the period before the crisis.

Keywords
Financial openness; Capital flows; Global financial crisis