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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788691403321

Autore

Mauro Paolo

Titolo

Institutions and the External Capital Structure of Countries / / Paolo Mauro, Andre Faria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2004

ISBN

1-4623-9001-3

1-4527-0260-8

1-283-55441-0

9786613866868

1-4519-2031-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

FariaAndre

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign - Developing countries

Debts, External - Developing countries

Stocks - Developing countries

Financial crises - Developing countries

Exports and Imports

Investments: Stocks

Money and Monetary Policy

Natural Resources

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

International Lending and Debt Problems

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Education: General

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

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

Finance

Investment & securities

Education

Environmental management

Monetary economics



Foreign direct investment

Stocks

Natural resources

Bank credit

Balance of payments

Financial institutions

Environment

Money

Investments, Foreign

Credit

Russian Federation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2004."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-30).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. EXISTING THEORIES AND HYPOTHESES""; ""III. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS""; ""IV. CONCLUSION""; ""Sources and Description of the Variables""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

A widespread view holds that countries that finance themselves through foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio equity, rather than bonds and loans, are less prone to crises. But what determines countries' external capital structures? In a cross section of emerging markets and developing countries, we find that equity-like liabilities (FDI and, especially, portfolio equity) as a share of countries' total external liabilities (or as a share of GDP) are positively and significantly associated with indicators of educational attainment, natural resource abundance, and especially, institutional quality. These relationships are robust to attempts to control for possible endogeneity, suggesting that better institutional quality may help improve countries' capital structures. The results might also provide an explanation for the observed correlation between institutional quality and the frequency of crises.