Analysis of International Capital Inflows and Institutional Quality in Emerging Markets

Immaculate Simiso Nxumalo and Patricia Lindelwa Makoni
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Immaculate Simiso Nxumalo: Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking, University of South Africa, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Patricia Lindelwa Makoni: Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking, University of South Africa, Pretoria 0002, South Africa

Economies, 2021, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: This study investigates the cointegrating and causality relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and institutional quality in a sample of 12 emerging market economies for the period from 2007 to 2017. A composite index for institutional quality composed of the Worldwide Governance Indicators was constructed using the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) method. The panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and the error correction model (ECM) were applied to assess the cointegrating and causal relationships between the key variables. In addition to finding significant cointegrating relationships between institutional quality and the foreign capital inflows (FDI and FPI), the results confirmed unidirectional causality from FDI and FPI to institutional quality in the long run. The results further suggested that the long-run relationship between the two foreign capital inflows was more of a trade-off nature, dependent upon the dynamics of the institutional environment in the host economy. The recommendations suggested include that emerging markets should continue to open their economies in pursuit of capital inflows, which will reciprocally strengthen their domestic institutional environment. Strengthening institutions could curtail the persistence of institutional weaknesses and insulate emerging economies from the adverse effects of volatile capital flows and, over the long run, enhance capital inflows.

Keywords: international capital inflows; foreign direct investment; foreign portfolio investment; institutional quality; emerging markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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