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Channelling Domestic Savings into Productive Investment Under Asymmetric Information: The Essential Role of Foreign Direct Investment

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  • Razin, Assaf
  • Sadka, Efraim
  • Yuen, Chi-Wa

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low- and middle-income countries with insufficiently developed capital markets. This paper analyses the problem of channelling domestic savings into productive investment, in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by such information problems. The paper identifies how, in the presence of information asymmetry, different capital market structures may lead to foreign over- or under-investment and to domestic under- or over-saving, and thus to inefficient equilibria. We show how corrective tax-subsidy policies, consisting of taxes on corporate income and the capital incomes of both residents and non-residents, can restore efficiency.

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  • Razin, Assaf & Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa, 1998. "Channelling Domestic Savings into Productive Investment Under Asymmetric Information: The Essential Role of Foreign Direct Investment," CEPR Discussion Papers 1837, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:1837
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    1. Mariano Bosch & Angel Melguizo & Ximena Peña & David Tuesta, 2015. "Savings under formal and informal conditions," Working Papers 1519, BBVA Bank, Economic Research Department.
    2. Assaf Razin & Chi-Wa Yuen & Efraim Sadka, 1998. "Capital Flows with Debt- and Equity-Financed Investment-Equilibrium Structure and Efficiency Implications," IMF Working Papers 1998/159, International Monetary Fund.
    3. Mariano Bosch & Angel Melguizo & Ximena Peña & David Tuesta, 2015. "El ahorro en condiciones formales e informales," Working Papers 1523, BBVA Bank, Economic Research Department.
    4. Diemo Dietrich, 2004. "Financing FDI into Developing Economies and the International Transmission of Business Cycle Fluctuations," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 140(IV), pages 449-481, December.
    5. Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka & Chi-Wa Yuen, "undated". "Quantitative Implications of the Home Bias: Foreign Underinvestment, Domestic Oversaving, and Corrective Taxation," EPRU Working Paper Series 97-27, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
    6. Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka & Chi-Wa Yuen, 2001. "Why International Equity Inflows to Emerging Markets are Inefficient and Small Relative to International Debt Flows," NBER Working Papers 8659, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General

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