Financial Development and International Trade

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Leibovici, Fernando
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/716564
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: constraints; GLOBALIZATION; elasticity; frictions; DYNAMICS; margins; IMPACT

摘要

This paper studies the industry-level and aggregate implications of financial development on international trade. I set up a multi-industry general equilibrium model of international trade with input-output linkages and heterogeneous firms subject to financial frictions. Industries differ in capital intensity, which leads to differences in external finance dependence. The model is parameterized to match key features of firm-level data. Financial development leads to substantial reallocation of international trade shares from labor- to capital-intensive industries, with minor effects at the aggregate level. These findings are consistent with estimates from cross-country industry-level and aggregate data.