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A Solution to Two Paradoxes of International Capital Flows
Author: Shang-Jin Wei and Mr. Jiandong Ju
Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2006: Issue 178
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Jul 2006
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451864380.001
ISBN:
9781451864380
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
39
Keywords:
WP; financial system; interest rate
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International capital flows from rich to poor countries can be regarded as either too low (the Lucas paradox in a one-sector model) or too high (when compared with the logic of factor price equalization in a two-sector model). To resolve the paradoxes, we introduce a non-neoclassical model which features financial contracts and firm heterogeneity. In our model, free patterns of gross capital flow emerge as a function of the quality of the financial system and the level of protection for property rights(i.e., the risk of expropriation. A poor country with an inefficient financial system but a low expropriation risk may simultaneously experience an outflow of financial capital but an inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI), resulting in a small net flow.
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IMF Working Papers
ISSN:
1018-5941
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