Country portfolios

Aart Kraay (), Norman V. Loayza (), Luis Servén and Jaume Ventura ()

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: Capital flows to developing countries are small and are mostly take the form of loans rather than direct foreign investment. We build a simple model of North-South capital flows that highlights the interplay between diminishing returns, production risk and sovereign risk. This model generates a set of country portfolios and a world distribution of capital stocks that resemble those in the data.

Keywords: Internationall capital flows; country portfolios; sovereign risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F32 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2000-10
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