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Financial openness and cross-border capital flows: perspectives from terrorist attacks as exogenous shocks

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  • Tao Liu

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

  • Dongzhou Mei

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

  • Zihan Chen

    (China Construction Bank)

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In an era of financial globalization, cross-border capital flows hugely affect a country’s economic conditions, but their cyclical properties remain controversial. This paper takes terrorist attacks as exogenous shocks to study whether financial openness helps an economy recover from a crisis through inducing capital inflows, or amplifies the adverse effects by allowing for capital flight. With a panel dataset from 1990 to 2016, we show that cross-border capital flows are largely pro-cyclical, especially for non-OECD countries. A higher level of financial openness is associated with net capital outflows in response to terrorist incidents, mainly due to the decrease of the aggregate capital inflows by foreign investors. This mechanism also applies to disaggregate cross-border capital flows such as FDI, portfolio investment and debt investment. Furthermore, there is no sign that exchange rate adjustment insulates non-OECD countries from net capital outflows following a terrorist attack.

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  • Tao Liu & Dongzhou Mei & Zihan Chen, 2024. "Financial openness and cross-border capital flows: perspectives from terrorist attacks as exogenous shocks," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 160(1), pages 193-211, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:weltar:v:160:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10290-023-00495-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s10290-023-00495-4
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    Keywords

    Terrorist attacks; Financial openness; Cross-border capital flows; Exogenous shocks;
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems

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