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Capital Controls and Firm Performance

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  • Eugenia Andreasen

    (Economics Department, Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

  • Sofía Bauducco

    (Central Bank of Chile)

  • Evangelina Dardati

    (Economics Department, Universidad Alberto Hurtado)

Abstract

This paper studies the effects of capital controls on firms’ production, investment and exporting decisions. We empirically characterize the firm’s responses to the introduction of a capital control, using the Chilean encaje implemented between 1991 and 1998 as a laboratory. Motivated by our findings, we build a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms, financial constraints and international trade and calibrate it to the Chilean economy. We find that capital controls reduce aggregate production and investment while increasing exports, the share of exporters and TFP. The e↵ects of capital controls are exacerbated for firms in more capital-intensive sectors and for exporters.

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  • Eugenia Andreasen & Sofía Bauducco & Evangelina Dardati, 2019. "Capital Controls and Firm Performance," ILADES-UAH Working Papers inv331, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business.
    • Handle: RePEc:ila:ilades:inv331
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    Cited by:

    1. Javier Bianchi & Guido Lorenzoni, 2021. "The Prudential Use of Capital Controls and Foreign Currency Reserves," NBER Working Papers 29476, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. David Kohn & Fernando Leibovici & Michal Szkup, 2021. "Financial Frictions and International Trade," Documentos de Trabajo 563, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
    3. Janiak, Alexandre & Machado, Caio & Turén, Javier, 2021. "Covid-19 contagion, economic activity and business reopening protocols," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 182(C), pages 264-284.
    4. Acosta-Henao, Miguel & Alfaro, Laura & Fernández, Andrés, 2025. "Sticky capital controls," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    5. Benguria, Felipe & Matsumoto, Hidehiko & Saffie, Felipe, 2022. "Productivity and trade dynamics in sudden stops," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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