Country Portfolios

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

No 3320, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Capital flows to developing countries are small and take mostly 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: Economic Theory&Research; Banks&Banking Reform; Payment Systems&Infrastructure; International Terrorism&Counterterrorism; Environmental Economics&Policies; Economic Theory&Research; Banks&Banking Reform; International Terrorism&Counterterrorism; Environmental Economics&Policies; Financial Intermediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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