International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence / Cédric Tille, Eric van Wincoop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tille, Cédric.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

van Wincoop, Eric.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14390.

NBER working paper series no. w14390

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.

Summary:

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed information across individual investors. There is extensive evidence of information heterogeneity within and across countries, which has proven critical to understanding asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an open economy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice model, and emphasize two implications for capital flows that are specific to the presence of dispersed information. First, gross and net capital flows become partially disconnected from publicly observed fundamentals. Second, capital flows (particularly gross flows) contain information about future fundamentals, even after controlling for current fundamentals. We find that these implications are quantitatively significant and consistent with data for industrialized countries.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2008.