Abstract:
To analyze the effect of financial liberalization policy on total factor productivity in Thailand during 1982-2007, the periods which included conducting financial liberalization policy and financial crisis in 1997. Financial liberalization policy is divided into four major groups included interest rate deregulation, capital control deregulation, bank deregulation and financial service liberalization. The long run relationship between financial liberalization policy and total factor productivity growth (TFPG) is estimated by cointegration and the short run by error correction model. The long run results find that neither financial liberalization policy nor has significant impact on TFPG, While human capital is positively and capital-labor ratio is negatively related on TFPG. Possible reasons for this finding is financial liberalization leaded to unstable economy and become to financial crisis, moreover Thailand had conducted financial liberalization policy for short period before depressed financial system again in 1997. In contrast, the short run results find that the foreign direct investment and equity investment per GDP has significant positive impact and the level of privatization has significant negative impact on TFPG. This finding due to nationalizing failure financial institutions for stabilize financial system in crisis period benefited to recovery economic and financial system stability which had positive impact to TFPG.