In the recent decade, capital outows from emerging economies, in the form of a demandfor liquid assets, have played a key role in the context of global imbalances. In this paper,we model the demand for liquid assets by rms in a dynamic open-economy macroeconomicmodel. We nd that the implications...

The paper shows that in a stylized model with two countries, characterized bydifferent levels of nancial development, the following facts can be replicated: 1)persistent current account surpluses and 2) high TFP growth in China. Because ofliquidity shocks and credit constraints, investment by...

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced internationalcapital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup atwo-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor...