Paper #1340

Título:

Financial reforms and capital flows: Insights from general equilibrium

Autores:

Alberto Martin y Jaume Ventura

Fecha:

Septiembre 2012

Resumen:

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge enough future profits to their creditors and this constrains the financing they can raise. Many have argued that, by relaxing these credit constraints, reforms that strengthen enforcement institutions would increase capital flows to emerging economies. This argument is based on a partial equilibrium intuition though, which does not take into account the origin of any additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms. Indeed, the resources released by these low-productivity firms could exceed those absorbed by high-productivity ones so that capital flows to emerging economies might actually decrease following successful reforms. This result provides a new perspective on some recent patterns of capital flows in industrial and emerging economies.

Palabras clave:

capital flows, financial reforms, productivity, economic growth, financial globalization

Códigos JEL:

F34, F36, G15, O19, O43

Área de investigación:

Macroeconomía y Economía Internacional

Publicado en:

Caballero, R. and Hebel, K. (Eds.), Economc Policy in Emerging Economies, Central Bank of Chile, Forthcoming

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