Liquidity, institutional quality and the composition of international equity outflows
By: Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong.
Contributors: Razin, Assaf.; Tong, Hui.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13723; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13723.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We examine the choice between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment at the level of the source country.  Based on a theoretical model, we predict that (1) source countries with higher probability of aggregate liquidity crises export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this effect strengthens as the source country's capital market transparency worsens.  To test these hypotheses, we apply a dynamic panel model and examine the variation of FPI relative to FDI for 140 source countries from 1985 to 2004.  Our key variable is the probability of an aggregate liquidity crisis, estimated from a Probit model, as proxied by episodes of economy-wide sales of external assets.  Consistent with our theory, we find that the probability of a liquidity crisis has a strong effect on the composition of foreign equity investment.  Furthermore, greater capital market opacity in the source country strengthens the effect of the crisis probability"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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