Replication data for: Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lee E. Ohanian; Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria; Mark L. J. Wright
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Project Citation:
Ohanian, Lee E., Restrepo-Echavarria, Paulina, and Wright, Mark L. J. Replication data for: Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113106V1
Project Description
Summary:
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After World War II, international capital flowed into slow-growing Latin America rather than fast-growing Asia. This is surprising as, everything else equal, fast growth should imply high capital returns. This paper develops a capital flow accounting framework to quantify the role of different factor market distortions in producing these patterns. Surprisingly, we find that distortions in labor markets, rather than domestic or international capital markets, account for the bulk of these flows. Labor market distortions that indirectly depress investment incentives by lowering equilibrium labor supply explain two-thirds of observed flows, while improvement in these distortions over time accounts for much of Asia's rapid growth.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Employment;
Population;
National Income and Product Accounts;
Hours Worked
JEL Classification:
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E22 Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
F21 International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
F32 Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
E22 Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
F21 International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
F32 Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Geographic Coverage:
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Singapore,
Hong Kong,
United States,
Portugal,
Iceland,
Greece,
Netherlands,
South Korea,
Sweden,
Austria,
Luxembourg,
Ireland,
Brazil,
France,
Chile,
Colombia,
Argentina,
Japan,
United Kingdom,
Switzerland,
Spain,
New Zealand,
Canada,
Belgium,
Norway,
Taiwan,
Finland,
Denmark,
Italy,
Mexico,
Australia,
Peru,
Germany
Time Period(s):
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1950 – 2007
Universe:
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National Economies
Data Type(s):
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program source code;
aggregate data
Methodology
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Data sources are described in detail in the Appendix to the published paper.
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Country,
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