01865cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013128 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475568660 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Hashimoto, Yuko. The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows : New Evidence from the SDDS / Yuko Hashimoto, Konstantin Wacker. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (44 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 In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance with the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). For FDI, we find statistically significant and robust support for this hypothesis: SDDS subscription increased inflows by an economically relevant magnitude of about 60 percent. We also find evidence of aversion against political and macroeconomic risk as determinants of portfolio and FDI flows anduse a non-parametric test for spatial correlation in the residual of capital flows. Mode of access: Internet Wacker, Konstantin. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/242 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/242/001.2012.issue-242-en.xml IMF e-Library