Arbeitspapier
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger diversification of financial investments. This paper investigates the role of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive investments and between more culturally distant countries) and for the type of migrants that are most able to enhance the flow of information, namely, skilled migrants. We interpret these differential effects as additional evidence pointing to the role of information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between countries.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 17/13
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
International Migration
- Thema
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Migration
international financial flows
international loans
gravity models
information asymmetries
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kugler, Maurice
Levintal, Oren
Rapoport, Hillel
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
- (wann)
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2013
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kugler, Maurice
- Levintal, Oren
- Rapoport, Hillel
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2013