@article{EnglerWulff2014, author = {Engler, Philipp and Wulff, Alexander}, title = {Opposition to capital market opening}, series = {Applied economics letters}, volume = {21}, journal = {Applied economics letters}, number = {6}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1350-4851}, doi = {10.1080/13504851.2013.868579}, pages = {425 -- 428}, year = {2014}, abstract = {We employ a neoclassical growth model to assess the impact of financial liberalization in a developing country on capital owners' and workers' consumption and welfare. We find for an average non-OECD country that capital owners suffer a 42\% reduction in permanent consumption because capital inflows reduce their return to capital while workers gain 8\% of permanent consumption because capital inflows increase wages. These huge gross impacts contrast with the small positive net effect found in a neoclassical representative agent model by Gourinchas and Jeanne (2006). Our findings provide an estimate of the amount of redistribution needed to overcome capitalists' opposition to capital inflows.}, language = {en} }