Opening Up: Capital Flows and Financial Sector Dynamics in Low-Income Developing Countries
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Summary:
Over the past two decades, many low-income developing countries have substantially increased openness towards external financing and have received large capital inflows. Using bank-level micro data, this paper finds that capital inflows have been associated with financial deepening through increases in bank loans, deposits, and wholesale funding. Domestic banks increase loans more than foreign banks. There are only modest signs of a build-up in financial vulnerabilities. Causality is examined through an instrumental variable approach and an augmented inverse-probability weighting estimator. These approaches indicate only limited evidence for global push effects, pointing towards the importance of domestic pull factors.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2021/237
Subject:
Balance of payments Capital flows Capital inflows Economic and financial statistics Financial institutions Financial sector policy and analysis Financial sector risk Financial statistics Loans
Frequency:
regular
English
Publication Date:
September 24, 2021
ISBN/ISSN:
9781513597720/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2021237
Pages:
49
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