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Financial resilience, growth and risk sharing in the EU

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  • Cavallaro, Eleonora
  • Villani, Ilaria

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We build a financial resilience index capturing the structure and stability features of financial systems and benchmark EU financial systems against their ability to enhance stable growth and international risk sharing. The index comprises financial openness, market orientation, equity deepening, maturity structure, and institutional soundness. Our results show that: (i) EU financial systems are highly heterogeneous and converge to a clustered pattern; (ii) the index is highly significant in growth regressions, suggesting that financial structure and institutional soundness are key to enduring growth; (iii) the heterogeneity of EU financial systems has implications for the vulnerability to domestic output shocks: the risk-sharing mechanism is more effective in the market-based and institutionally sound economies that group in the top financial clusters, whereas unsmoothed consumption is higher in economies belonging to the low-resilience clusters, especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, when the credit channel is significantly downsized.

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  • Cavallaro, Eleonora & Villani, Ilaria, 2024. "Financial resilience, growth and risk sharing in the EU," International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:inteco:v:180:y:2024:i:c:s2110701724000738
    DOI: 10.1016/j.inteco.2024.100550
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    Keywords

    Financial structure; Financial heterogeneity; Growth; Volatility; Risk sharing;
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    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets

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