Economic development, flow of funds, and the equilibrium interaction of financial frictions

Benjamin Moll; Robert M. Townsend; Victor Zhorin

doi:10.1073/pnas.1707055114

Economic development, flow of funds, and the equilibrium interaction of financial frictions

Benjamin Moll
, Robert M. Townsend
, Victor Zhorin

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We use a variety of different datasets from Thailand to study not only the extremes of micro and macro variables but also withincountry flow of funds and labor migration. We develop a general equilibrium model that encompasses regional variation in the type of financial friction and calibrate it to measured variation in regional aggregates. The model predicts substantial capital and labor flows fromrural to urban areas even though these differ only in the underlying financial regime. Predictions for micro variables not used directly provide a model validation. Finally, we estimate the impact of a policy of counterfactual, regional isolationism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6176-6184
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	114
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707055114
State	Published - Jun 13 2017

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Big data
Financial frictions
Isolationist policies
Regional flow of funds
Thailand

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