Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium … benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …