%0 Journal Article %T Globalizaci¨®n financiera y sus efectos sobre el desarrollo financiero %A Tovar %A Edgar Demetrio %J Ensayos sobre POL¨ªTICA ECON¨®MICA %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper shows the empirical evidence about the nexus financial globalization-financial development, and the theoretical relationship between both, because this is important for the process of economic growth and development. a new empirical test is elaborated, with new indicators of financial globalization and financial development closer to theoretical and conceptual framework, and with a different inclusion of institutional variables. a dynamic panel data model is employed, the principal results indicate that financial globalization favors a financial system that improves its functions of corporate governance and to pool savings, but it damages the functions to provide information and to diversify risk. %K financial globalization %K financial development %K economic development %K dynamic panel data %K generalised method of moments. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-44832011000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en