INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY, CAPITAL FLIGHT AND CAPITAL FLOWS
- Authors
- Baek, Seung-Gwan; Yang, Doo Yong
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- KOREAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
- Keywords
- Capital flight; political risk; institutional quality
- Citation
- KOREAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, v.26, no.1, pp.121 - 155
- Journal Title
- KOREAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 121
- End Page
- 155
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/21736
- ISSN
- 0254-3737
- Abstract
- This paper examines the determinants of capital flight using panel data for 53 developing and 21 developed countries from 1984-2004. Our empirical results show, first, that institutional quality is a key determinant of capital flight for developing countries. Second, capital control is not an effective tool to mitigate flight of capital. Capital flees less to the extent that a country is financially more open and more developed. Third, capital flight increases with the standard of living up to a certain level of income, but thereafter decreases as income rises. Finally, upgrading institutional quality not only encourages private capital inflows but also discourages capital flight.
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