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The determinants of capital inflows: Does opacity of recipient country explain the flows?

dc.contributor.author Hooper, Vincent en_US
dc.contributor.author Kim, Suk-Joong en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:37:36Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T13:37:36Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper examines the relationship between international capital flows and the opacity of recipient countries. We use the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) [Price Waterhouse Coopers, 2001. The Opacity Index: A Project of the Price Waterhouse Coopers Endowment for the Study of Transparency and Sustainability] opacity index for the year 2000 and investigate its influence on three types of net international capital flows: foreign direct investment, portfolio capital and international bank lending. We find support for higher opacity leading to a reduction in capital inflows, in general. More interestingly, however, in some cases we find counterintuitive results of more capital flows when opacity relating to specific business climate increases—accounting and regulations for foreign direct investment flows, corruption and regulation for portfolio flows, and corruption and economic opacities for international lending flows. This may be because of potentially higher profit opportunities that may be present due to the greater role unofficial channels of investment practices play as these opacity indices rise. Also, we find international bank lending, in general, responded very differently from foreign direct investment and portfolio flows. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0939-3625 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/40142
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title The determinants of capital inflows: Does opacity of recipient country explain the flows? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2006.08.001 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Business
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 1 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Economic Systems en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 35-48 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 31 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Hooper, Vincent en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Kim, Suk-Joong, Banking & Finance, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Banking & Finance *
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