Do Capital Flows Reflect Economic Fundamentals in Developing Countries? /

This paper proposes a methodology for testing whether capital flows to developing countries are determined by economic fundamentals or by purely speculative forces. We use the intertemporal optimizing approach to current account determination as our benchmark for judging the behavior of capital flow...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Atish
Other Authors: Ostry, Jonathan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/034
Online Access:Full text available on IMF