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Title:Crises, economic integration and growth collapses in African countries
Authors:Ali, Abdilahi
Imai, Katsushi S.ISNI
Year:2015
Periodical:Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024)
Volume:24
Issue:4
Pages:471-501
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:economic integration
economic recession
External link:https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejv010
Abstract:The objective of this article is to explore the effects of crises and openness on a large sample of African countries. Focusing on sudden stops, currency, twin and sovereign debt crises, the article shows that crises are associated with growth collapses in Africa. In contrast, openness is found to be beneficial to growth. More specifically, consistent with standard Mundell-Fleming type models, greater openness to trade and financial flows is found to mitigate the adverse effects of crises. These findings are robust to various measures of both openness and crises as well as to endogeneity concerns. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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