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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics
Verlag: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Zusammenfassung: 
While illicit capital flight is a major concern of policy makers in developing countries, there is only little research on the possible link between capital flight and development aid. In this paper, we address the issue for Nepal, a stereotypical financially-closed developing economy that is highly dependent on resources from abroad. Distinguishing features of our approach are the use of a narrowly defined proxy of capital flight, based on trade-cost adjusted mirror trade statistics, and the focus on the foreign-exchange cash component of development aid. We document a robust partial correlation between aid and outward capital flight that is economically and statistically significant. Based on three comparisons, we consider this correlation to be indicative of a causal link. First, we compare aid to remittances, an alternative form of foreign-exchange inflows where the capital flight motivation is absent. Second, we compare the FX-cash component to broader aid definitions that include in-kind transfers. Finally, we compare the subcomponents of export underinvoicing and import overinvoicing and show that only the latter is driving our results.
Schlagwörter: 
Capital Flight
Development Aid
Remittances
Trade Misinvoicing
JEL: 
F24
F32
F35
Dokumentart: 
Conference Paper

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