Does Capital Scarcity Matter? / Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry, Racha Moussa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chari, Anusha.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Henry, Peter Blair.

Moussa, Racha.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23921.

NBER working paper series no. w23921

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

This paper quantifies the welfare impact of a permanent increase in the level of per capita income brought about by a temporary increase in the growth rate of GDP per capita following capital account liberalization. In the immediate aftermath of liberalization, and under a range of assumptions, differences between the autarkic and integrated equilibrium consumption paths are large. Yet the welfare impact of these differences is small when using infinite horizon consumption streams to compute welfare gains. The results suggest that a finite horizon framework may be more appropriate and policy-relevant for evaluating the welfare consequences of economic policy changes that induce temporary growth effects but have a permanent impact on the level of per capita incomes.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2017.