We analyze the implications of financial openness to macroeconomic volatility in a small open economy. Major macroeconomic aggregates show non-monotonic volatility patterns with respect to the degree of financial openness in the model without domestic financial frictions. The introduction of...

This paper proposes a novel channel, i.e., within-firm intangible-tangible investment composition, through which financial capital flows may have non-trivial implications to allocative efficiency and productivity. Consider a model where only the tangibles can be pledged as collateral for loans....