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Capital account liberalization, production heterogeneity, and belief-driven fluctuations in financial-constrained economies

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  • Kunieda, Takuma
  • Nishimura, Kazuo

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To investigate the macroeconomic effects of capital account liberalization, we apply a dynamic general equilibrium model with two production sectors. In contrast to the literature on belief-driven sunspot fluctuations caused by production externalities, our model does not assume any production externalities. In our model, agents face financial constraints and production heterogeneity. The financial constraints and agents’ production heterogeneity are sources of dynamic inefficiency. Although indeterminacy of equilibrium and belief-driven sunspot fluctuations never occur in the closed economy, dynamic inefficiency combined with a negative foreign asset in the steady state produces indeterminacy in the small open economy if financial constraints are fully relaxed under the condition that the investment goods sector is more labor intensive than the consumption goods sector.

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  • Kunieda, Takuma & Nishimura, Kazuo, 2025. "Capital account liberalization, production heterogeneity, and belief-driven fluctuations in financial-constrained economies," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmacro:v:86:y:2025:i:c:s0164070425000515
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2025.103715
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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
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