Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
model with heterogeneous investors and imperfect capital mobility. Our model yields a gravity equation for bilateral foreign … asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation using recently developed foreign investment data that have been restated … benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …