of financial markets. On the other hand, La Porta et al. (1997) concur that adequate legal and property rights protection is linked to capital market
development. They suggest that in countrieswith poor investor protection and a poor lawenforcement environment, international financial integration
could have little impact in improving risk sharing and domestic investment.
We consider the effects of financial openness and institutional quality jointly. Themain question here is to testwhether adverse effects of financial
openness aremitigated by good policy environment; or alternatively,whether positive impact of financial integration intensifies with better domestic
policies and environment. We follow Chinn and Ito (2008) and modify our model as:
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