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The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows.

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hashimoto, Yuko
Otros Autores: Wacker, Konstantin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Colección:IMF Working Papers.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Appendices; Tables; Figures; I. Introduction; 1. Capital Flows (% of GDP) prior to and after SDDS Subscription; II. Information and Investment: A Literature Review; III. Investment: Model and Data; A. Portfolio and foreign direct investment; B. Econometric model; C. Determinants of international investment flows; D. Risk; E. Information; F. Spatial interdependencies; IV. Main Empirical Results; 1. FDI determinants; 2. Portfolio determinants; V. Robustness and Further Results; 2. Plots for normality of residuals from model (3a).
  • 3. Kernel density estimate for residuals from model (3a) with corresponding normal distribution3. Different time trends between SDDS subscribers and non-subscribers?; 4. Parameter robustness; 4. Dynamic effects of SDDS subscription; 5. Smoothing spline estimate of spatial correlation in FDI flow residuals with 90 percent pointwise confidence bands based on 1,000 bootstrap replications; VI. Discussion and Conclusion; A. Main findings; B. Relation to other findings in the literature; C. Further results; D. Perspectives on further research and policy issues; A. Information on SDDS.
  • 5. List of SDDS subscribers6. SDDS Data Coverage; B. Sample, variables and descriptive statistics; 7. List of Variables; References; Footnotes.