International Capital Mobility and Factor Reallocation in a Multisector Economy

Dürdane Saracoğlu (ssirin@metu.edu.tr) and Zeynep Akgul (zakgul@metu.edu.tr)
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Zeynep Akgul: Department of Economics, METU

No 1001, ERC Working Papers from ERC - Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of international capital flows in a small open econ omy utilizing a dynamic general equilibrium framework based on a three-sector Ramsey growth model. In order to analyze the impact of international capital mobility on production, consumption and allocation of resources across three sectors ,two different economic environments are modelled. The first model represents an open economy with capital mobility (a more comprehensive environment),and the second model introduces a closed economy with no capital mobility. Numerical applications of the models use data from the Turkish economy for the year 2002. The numerical results demonstrate that the presence of capital mobility, despite being limited by a borrowing constraint, reverses the impact of economic growth on production and resource allocation. The results also show that while production in the closed economy model simply adjusts to domestic demand, that of the open economy model is not constrained by it. Results further point that although there is positive growth in income and output in both environments, income growth in the capital mobility environment falls short of that in the no capital mobility environment. This result can be attributed to the relatively slower accumulation of capi tal in the former, which may be compensated by a positive rate of technological progress to accompany international capital flows.

Keywords: International Capital Flows; Human Capital; Multisector economy; Borrowing Constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 F43 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2010-04, Revised 2010-04
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