Value extraction, crowding out, and instability of the financial sector on Colombian productive development

Extração de valor, crowding out e instabilidade do setor financeiro no desenvolvimento produtivo colombiano

ABSTRACT

This research aims to illustrate how, under the scenario of global financialization, Colombia’s productive model changed and now is led by finance which extracted value, creating instability, and provoking a crowding out effect on real sector embodied here by the manufacture share of GDP. The above became evident in the 1990s thanks to free-market reforms implemented. The research uses heterodox theory to empirically verify the hypotheses by creating variables representing the proposed phenomena and exposing them through descriptive analysis and a VARX model.

KEYWORDS:
Financial instability; value extraction; crowding out; financialization; developing economics