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The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows, and Convergence [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Economic Review, 2010
into physical capital in a number of countries. However, the gains are found to be quite small.
Sirsha Chatterjee, Kanda Naknoi
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Capital flows and capital goods

Journal of International Economics, 2007
Abstract Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which international financial integration can promote growth. For the period 1980–1997, we find that after controlling for other policies and fundamentals, stock market liberalizations are associated with a significant ...
Laura Alfaro, Eliza Hammel
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When is FDI a Capital Flow? [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of financing an international investment trades off the ...
Marin, Dalia, Schnitzer, Monika
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Intermediation costs and capital flows

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004
Abstract In this paper, we modify the standard neoclassical model by incorporating financial intermediation in order to deliver returns consistent with the observation that capital primarily flows to middle income countries. We build a static contracting framework where costly intermediation together with an adverse selection problem have ...
Ayse Imrohoroglu, Krishna B. Kumar
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Capital Flows to Emerging Markets [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Capital flows to emerging market economies have occurred in cycles, with booms in lending often followed by financial crises. Economic theory, though, has had little to say on the optimal rate at which capital should flow. In this paper a model due to Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin is extended to make it more appropriate for analysis of emerging ...
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Fixed Capital and the Flow

2018
This essay examines the temporal structure of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss (1860) from the perspective of energy and ecology, arguing that Eliot’s well-established interest in epochal shift extends to a searching and prescient inquiry into the temporality of energy and energy regime transition.
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Capital Flows

Middle East Oil Exporters presents a detailed picture of the economic structure and a critical survey of the recent economic performance of the Middle East. The focus is especially on the large oil-exporting nations, although the smaller producers are represented as well.
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Flows of water, flows of capital

2013
Over the past two decades, Colombia has witnessed a significant shift in the overall legal and policy domain in the water sector in order to adjust to the demands imposed by neoliberal economic reforms. Particularly in urban areas, this reform model has been deeply contested as it failed to provide low-income population with access to affordable and ...
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Capital Flows and Asset Prices [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
After liberalizing international transactions of financial assets, many countries experience large swings in asset prices, capital flows, and aggregate production. This paper studies how the adjustment to capital account liberalization depends upon the degree of development of a domestic financial system, and why the economy with an underdeveloped ...
Kosuke Aoki   +2 more
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Restraints On Capital Flows: What Are They?

1998
Though there has been much general debate recently about the pros and cons of capital controls, there remains substantial confusion and uncertainty about what exactly is entailed by the term restraining global capital flows. Popular discussion around this has typically been long on rhetoric and loose generalisations and acutely short on specifics.
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