Capital Account Openness and Bankruptcies
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This paper presents a model where opening the capital account of an economy causes more bankruptcies to take place in the non tradables sector. Non tradable rms must forecast the future state of the economy when investing since the demand for their goods depends on this. In our model the interest rate is a powerful signal that non tradable rms use when the capital account is closed, but its informational content decreases once the capital account opens up and international (as well as domestic) shocks a¤ect it.
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