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International Capital Flows: Patterns and Drivers

(2019)

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This thesis investigates the drivers of capital flows to both emerging markets and advanced economies. Recent patterns and evolution of the composition of flows are highlighted. Capital flows are found to be large and volatile for both types of economies. Emerging market capital and advanced economies inflows respond procyclically to the domestic business cycle, and gross capital outflows in advanced economies are procyclical as well. A theoretical model shows that capital flows to emerging markets are likely to respond to both domestic and external factors. The empirical analysis finds that global push factors are the most important factors for both advanced and emerging market economies, namely global interest rates, global liquidity and the US corporate spread. The growth differential is also a key contributor.