The Effect of Capital Controlson Foreign Direct Investment Decisions Under Country Risk with Intangible Assets
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Summary:
This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning's "eclectic theory" framework, using "real options" to emphasize economic uncertainty and country risk. Numerical results of the model take the form of "quality statistics" that uncover the underlying dynamics hidden in the aggregate data that is responsible for the low performance of recent empirical studies. We find that increasing levels of capital controls reduce the life-span of FDI investments at each level of country risk and foreign investors' willingness towards risk sharing increases. We reveal a significant interaction between capital control and country risk, resulting in a nonlinear relationship between these and the volatility and volume statistics. We estimate a standard cross-sectional model that provides strong support for our theoretical findings.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2007/079
Subject:
Balance of payments Business environment Capital controls Capital flows Economic sectors Foreign corporations Foreign direct investment
Frequency:
Monthly
English
Publication Date:
April 1, 2007
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451866438/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2007079
Pages:
62
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