Who Benefits from Capital Account Liberalization? : Evidence from Firm-Level Credit Ratings Data /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prati, Alessandro
Other Authors: Schindler, Martin, Valenzuela, Patricio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/210
Online Access:Full text available on IMF