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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788225603321

Autore

Prati Alessandro

Titolo

Who Benefits from Capital Account Liberalization? Evidence from Firm-Level Credit Ratings Data / / Alessandro Prati, Martin Schindler, Patricio Valenzuela

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-9006-4

9786612844164

1-4518-7357-3

1-282-84416-4

1-4527-5914-6

Descrizione fisica

34 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SchindlerMartin

ValenzuelaPatricio

Soggetti

Capital - Accounting

Credit ratings

Exports and Imports

Money and Monetary Policy

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

International economics

Monetary economics

Capital account

Capital account liberalization

Currencies

Credit

Balance of payments

Money

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

We provide new firm-level evidence on the effects of capital account liberalization. Based on corporate foreign-currency credit ratings data and a novel capital account restrictions index, we find that capital controls can substantially limit access to, and raise the cost of, foreign currency debt, especially for firms without foreign currency revenues. As an identification strategy, we exploit, via a difference-in-difference approach, within-country variation in firms' access to foreign currency, measured by whether or not a firm belongs to the nontradables sector. Nontradables firms benefit substantially more from capital account liberalization than others, a finding that is robust to a broad range of alternative specifications.