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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 17/13

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
International Migration
Thema
Migration
international financial flows
international loans
gravity models
information asymmetries

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kugler, Maurice
Levintal, Oren
Rapoport, Hillel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2013

Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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