Economic Integration and Government Revenue from Financial Repression

Jinjarak, Yothin

Abstract

We study a relationship between economic openness via financial and trade integration and government revenue from financial repression. An implicit budgetary saving, the financial repression revenue, as measured by the stock of government domestic debt multiplied by the difference between effective foreign and domestic interest rate, has declined significantly from the 1980s into the 2000s across the upper-income, the middle-income, and the low-income developing countries. While we find that both the financial and trade openness have a negative association with the financial repression revenue in the panel of countries, the effect of financial openness is stronger and the empirical correlations depend on the quality of governmental and budgetary management.

Citation

Jinjarak, Y. (2013). Economic Integration and Government Revenue from Financial Repression. Economic Systems, 37(2), 271-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2012.10.003

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Oct 24, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2025
• Journal: Economic Systems
• Print ISSN: 0939-3625
• Electronic ISSN: 1878-5433
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 271-283
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2012.10.003