Economic geography aims to explain agglomeration primarily through the channels of increasing returns, monopolistic competition and international factor mobility. By contrast, this paper constructs a theoretical model based on capital market frictions. Monopolistically competitive firms are run...

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

We study a two-sector, two-period model with learning externalities in the modern sector and imperfectly integrated capital markets. We find that higher capital market integration lowers the requirements on the learning pattern necessary for free trade to lead to an equilibrium with maximal...

We document the time countries are excluded from international capital markets after resolving a default and examine why some countries are able to regain access to international capital markets immediately after resolving a default, whereas other countries are punished for longer periods. We...

This study investigated the directional linkages among net foreign portfolio investment volatility, financial deepening and capital market performance in low-income Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries employing a dynamic panel vector error correction model (P-VECM) on...

This paper investigates the effect of reforms of insolvency regulations on cross-border debt and equity investments at a sectoral level. Using disaggregated data from the Securities Holdings Statistics by Sector (SHSS) and OECD-indicators on the efficiency of insolvency regulations, we find...

The bilateral foreign portfolio equities among Euro area members have shrunk by 40 percent after 2007. While both the financial crisis and the enlargement are potentially responsible of this abrupt and persistent contraction in financial integration, our work detects a major role for the crisis....

Purpose – As the U.S.-China trade war has become considerably worse, the Chinese government is considering applying non-tariff barriers to trade, especially local contents rule. The main purpose of this research is to check whether it is suitable for Korean investors to invest in the current...

We investigate the asymmetries in the African financial markets; both stock and exchanges markets, namely Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius and South Africa. The dataset begins on January 1, 2001 and ends on January 20, 2018, for a total of 4,479 trading days. We apply an asymmetric threshold...

The purpose of this paper is to set out a surprisingly simple solution to the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle or Paradox, which is that even though global financial markets appear to be integrated, levels of saving and investment are correlated across countries because financial markets cannot, by...