Financial Development and Simultaneous (Trade and Financial) Openness Hypothesis: The Case of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Samadi

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of financial development and testing the Simultaneous (trade and financial) openness hypothesis in Iranian economy during 1971-2006. For the analysis procedure, the time series econometrics techniques and the GMM method are applied. The results show that:
1-      For larger financial development, government should open trade and financial market, simultaneously.
2-      The effect of trade openness on financial development is greater than financial openness.

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