OECD Economics Department Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-1973 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/18151973
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Working papers from the Economics Department of the OECD that cover the full range of the Department’s work including the economic situation, policy analysis and projections; fiscal policy, public expenditure and taxation; and structural issues including ageing, growth and productivity, migration, environment, human capital, housing, trade and investment, labour markets, regulatory reform, competition, health, and other issues.
 

Medium-Term Determinants of International Investment Positions

The Role of Structural Policies You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Davide Furceri1, Stéphanie Guichard, Elena Rusticelli1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
17 May 2011
Bibliographic information
No.:
863
Pages
35
DOI
10.1787/5kgc9kzsm19x-en

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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of international investment positions for a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. In addition to the usually considered drivers of foreign assets and liabilities, the analysis focuses on the role of structural policy indicators. Using cross-section and panel regression techniques the results suggest that structural policy settings are important long-term drivers of capital flows, having a relatively large impact on gross and net foreign capital positions and on their composition. In particular, the results suggest that certain kinds of structural policy reform could help to narrow global imbalances, and to modify the composition of international capital flows towards more stable and productive sources.
Keywords:
global imbalances, capital flows, structural policy
JEL Classification:
  • E6: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
  • F21: International Economics / International Factor Movements and International Business / International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements