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JOURNAL OF FINANCE
Volume 72, Issue 4, Pages 1825-1857Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12497
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- Institute of Business and Economic Research at Berkeley
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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We study the effects of capital account liberalization on firm capital allocation and aggregate productivity in 10 Eastern European countries. Using a large firm-level data set, we show that capital account liberalization decreases the dispersion in the return to capital across firms, particularly in sectors more dependent on external finance. We provide evidence that capital account liberalization improves capital allocation by allowing financially constrained firms to demand more capital and produce at a more efficient level. Finally, using a model of misallocation we document that capital account liberalization increases aggregate productivity through more efficient capital allocation by 10% to 16%.
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