Financial Disclosure and International Capital Mobility in Latin America

Journal Title: BAR: Brazilian Administration Review - Year 2008, Vol 5, Issue 2

Abstract

The extant literature provides evidence on the impact of financial disclosure environments on international capital mobility. However, to our knowledge, there are no such studies including Latin-American countries. We aimed to fill this void by assessing the influence of accounting information on international capital mobility in a twenty-two-country sample, including the three largest Latin-American countries: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The countries included in the sample represent around 80% of the world’s GDP from 1995 to 2001. Our empirical results show with a 99% confidence level that the degree of disclosure of value-relevant accounting information has positively influenced international capital mobility. We also show, with a 95% confidence level, that countries where financial accounting is less aligned with tax accounting present higher international capital mobility. The three Latin-American countries studied present relatively low levels of disclosure among the sampled countries. However, whereas Argentina and Brazil show low levels of capital mobility, Mexico stands out with a high capital mobility, which we reckon could be accounted for by the country’s trade and investment connections with the US and by its participation in the NAFTA.

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Medeiros, Otavio R. de; Quinteiro, Luis Gustavo do Lago

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Medeiros, Otavio R. de; Quinteiro, Luis Gustavo do Lago (2008). Financial Disclosure and International Capital Mobility in Latin America. BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 5(2), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-40425