Arbeitspapier

Welfare effects of capital controls

This paper studies the effect of capital controls on misallocation and welfare in an economy with financial constraints. We build a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms, financial constraints and international trade and calibrate it to the Chilean economy. Since high-productivity and exporting firms need to borrow more to reach their optimal scale, capital controls that tax international borrowing hit them harder. As a result, misallocation increases relatively more for this group of firms, and for young firms that are still trying to reach their optimal scale. In terms of welfare, the model predicts a sizable aggregate loss of 2.39 percent when capital controls are introduced, with welfare decreasing twice as much for high-productivity firms. We empirically corroborate the main insights in terms of misallocation obtained from the model using Chilean manufacturing firm data from 1990 to 2007.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-1229

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Thema
Capital controls
Welfare
Misallocation
Financial frictions
International trade

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Andreasen, Eugenia
Bauducco, Sofía
Dardati, Evangelina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
(wo)
Washington, DC
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.18235/0003307
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Andreasen, Eugenia
  • Bauducco, Sofía
  • Dardati, Evangelina
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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