A New Database of Financial Reforms

By Abdul Abiad, E. Detragiache, T. Tressel. Social Science Research Network, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-Examined: Do All Countries Benefit Equally? (2013, methodology): “21 The banking supervision variable is obtained from Abiad et al. (2010), and, as mentioned above, is scaled from 1 to 3.”
Current Account Imbalances in the Southern Euro Area (2010, methodology): “12 The financial liberalization index is from Abiad et al. (2008) and combines information on interest rate controls, credit controls, competition restrictions, state ownership, quality of the banking supervision and regulation, and policies to permit access by foreigners to the domestic stock marke”
Financialisation in emerging economies: a systematic overview and comparison with Anglo-Saxon economies (2017, methodology): “Second, more recently Rashid (2013) found that in Sub-Saharan Africa financial liberalisation, measured by the IMF’s financial reforms dataset (Abiad, Detragiache, and Tressel 2008), had a negative effect on financial development.”
Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms (2017, background): “The above empirical observations call for a model of TFP dynamics and capital flows.”
International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters (2010, neutral): “14 Abiad et al. (2007) show that transition countries had strong capital inflows consistent with the neoclassical theory.”
Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Bank Acquisitions: Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Bank Acquisitions (2015, neutral): “…target or acquirer country has any influence on cross-border acquisition flows, target choices, and share price reactions to acquisition announcements, we use several measures of bank regulatory quality from Barth, Caprio, and Levine (2004, 2006; 2008) and Abiad, Detragiache, and Tressel (2010).”
What are the driving forces of bank competition across different income groups of countries (2014, background): “Abiad et al. (2010) show countries in all income groups and regions, which have significantly reformed their financial sectors over the period 1973–2005.”
Financial development, liberalization and technological deepening (2011, neutral): “We consider a broad-based measure of financial liberalization compiled recently by Abiad et al. (2010).”
Growth in regions (2014, neutral): “To get at this issue, we proxy for the barriers to factor mobility using the following measures of a country’s market infrastructure: an index of the regulation of domestic financial markets from Abiad et al. (2008), an index of international trade tariffs from Spilimbergo and Che (2012), an index o”
Finance and Income Inequality: A Review and New Evidence (2017, positive): “Like previous studies we use the financial liberalization data of Abiad et al. (2010), but also construct an alternative indicator based on some components of the economic freedom index of the Fraser Institute (Gwartney et al.”
Does Takeover Activity Cause Managerial Discipline? Evidence from International M&A Laws (2015, positive): “We employ the financial reform index from Abiad et al. (2010) which is a broad measure of the multi-dimensional nature of financial reforms.”
Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Intertemporal Substitution (2015, methodology): “Instead of a measure of credit availability reported in the Global Competitiveness Report we now employ a measure of financial reform by the IMF; instead of the perceptions of the rule of law in the society we employ a measure of generalized trust developed by Bjoernskov & Meon (2013).”