The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows : New Evidence from the SDDS /

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hashimoto, Yuko
Other Authors: Wacker, Konstantin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/242
Online Access:Full text available on IMF