01830cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001091 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451858488 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Hoeffler, Anke. Flight Capital as a Portfolio Choice / Anke Hoeffler, Catherine Pattillo, Paul Collier. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999. 1 online resource (33 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper sets flight capital in the context of portfolio choice, focusing upon the proportion of private wealth that is held abroad. There are large regional differences in this proportion, ranging from 5 percent in South Asia to 40 percent in Africa. We explain cross-country differences in portfolio choice by variables that proxy differences in the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital. We apply the results to four policy questions: how the East Asian crisis affected domestic capital outflows; herd effects; the effect of the IMF-World Bank debt relief initiative for heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPC) on capital repatriation; and why so much of Africa's private wealth is held outside the continent. Mode of access: Internet Collier, Paul. Pattillo, Catherine. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/171 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1999/171/001.1999.issue-171-en.xml IMF e-Library