External Constraints and Endogenous Growth: Why Didn't Some Countries Benefit from Capital Flows?
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issued: 2026-05-11T03:45:57.045162
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test_moissonnage_selune
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External Constraints and Endogenous Growth: Why Didn't Some Countries Benefit from Capital Flows?
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contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: capital-flows
keyword: overlapping-generations
keyword: endogenous-growth
keyword: shsecohumanities-and-social-scienceseconomics-and-finance
keyword: endogenous-credit-constraint
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticspreprint
keyword: preprints-working-papers-
landing page: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00822385
description: Empirical evidence on the growth benefits of capital inflows is mixed. The growth benefits accruing from capital inflows also appear to be larger for high savings countries. We explain this phenomenon using an OLG model of endogenous growth in open economies with borrowing constraints that can generate both positive and negative growth effects of capital inflows. The amount an economy can borrow is restricted by an endogenous enforcement constraint. In our setting, with physical capital and a pay-as-you-go pensions system, the steady state is unique. However, it can either be constrained or unconstrained. In a constrained economy, opening up to equity and FDI inflows can be bad for growth because it makes the domestic interest rate too low, which endogenously tightens borrowing constraints. Agents decrease savings and investment in productivity-enhancing activities resulting in lower growth. Results are reversed in an unconstrained economy. We also provide a quantitative analysis of these constraints and some policy implications.
issued: 2026-05-11T03:45:57.040250
language: en
modified: 2026-05-11T03:45:57.040256