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Capital controls and distribution of income: Empirical evidence for Great Britain Japan and Australia

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Kapitalverkehrskontrollen und Einkommensverteilung. Empirische Befunde für Großbritannien, Japan und Australien. - Der Verfasser geht davon aus, daß die Einführung von Kapitalverkehrskontrollen die nationale Einkommensverteilung beeinflußt; insbesondere zeigt er, daß Maßnahmen zur Verhinderung von Kapitalabflüssen die Einkommensverteilung zugunsten der Lohnempfänger verschiebt. Nachdem er die Wirksamkeit von Kontrollen mit Hilfe der Unterschiede zwischen in- und ausländischen Zinssätzen gemessen und die Erfahrungen dreier Länder (Großbritannien, Japan und Australien) berücksichtigt hat, präsentiert er einige Korrelationsindizes und Kausalitätstests, um zu untersuchen, ob möglicherweise Beziehungen zur Verteilung des Volkseinkommens bestehen. Danach entwickelt und schätzt er ein Strukturmodell. Der Autor zeigt, daß das Ausmaß der finanziellen Protektion die (optimale) Wahl von Beschäftigung und Lohn durch heimische Firmen und Gewerkschaften tendenziell beeinflußt hat.

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Les contrôles de capitaux et la distribution du revenu: La preuve empirique pour La Grande Bretagne, le Japon et l’Australie. - Dans cette étude l’auteur soutient l’opinion que l’adoption des contrôles de capitaux se répercutent sur la distribution du revenue national; et plus spécifiquement elle montre qu’en empêchant l’exportation des capitaux, la distribution du revenu change en faveur des salariés. Après avoir mesuré l’efficacité des contrôles à l’aide de l’écart entre les taux d'intérêt nationaux et les taux off-shore et après avoir reconsidéré les expériences de trois pays (Grande Bretagne, Japon, Australie) on présente quelques indices de corrélation et des tests de causalité pour étudier s’il y a des rapports avec la distribution du revenu national. Puis on propose un modèle structurel. Les estimations montrent que le degré de protection financière pourrait avoir influencé la sélection optimale de l’emploi et du salaire par les entreprises nationales et les syndicats.

Resumen

Controles de capital y distributión del ingreso: evidencia empírica para el Reino Unido, el Japón y Australia. - En este trabajo se argumenta que la adoptión des controles de capital afecta a la distributión del ingreso national. Más específicamente, se demuestra que al impedirse las exportaciones de capital se modifica la distributión del ingreso en favor de los asalariados. Después de medir la efectividad de los controles con el diferencial entre las tasas nacionales y las tasas offshore, y de pasar revista a la experiencia de tres países (el Reino Unido, el Japón y Australia), se presentan algunos índices de correlatión y tests de causalidad, con el fin de investigar la existencia de una relatión potential con la distributión del ingreso national. Finalmente, se propone y estima un modelo estructural que muestra que el grado de proteción financiera podría haber afectado la decisión sobre el empleo y el salario (óptimos) por parte de empresas y sindicatos nationales.

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Checchi, D. Capital controls and distribution of income: Empirical evidence for Great Britain Japan and Australia. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 128, 558–587 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02707368

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