Capital Movements and Their Control

Capital Movements and Their Control
Author: Alexander K. Swoboda
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1976
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789028602953

At head of title: Institut universitaire de hautes eÌ tudes internationales. Includes bibliographies and index.

Capital Controls

Capital Controls
Author: Ms.Inci Ötker
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2000-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1557758743

This paper examines country experiences with the use and liberalization of capital controls to develop a deeper understanding of the role of capital controls in coping with volatile capital flows, as well as the issues surrounding their liberalization. Detailed analyses of country cases aim to shed light on the motivations to limit capital flows; the role the controls may have played in coping with particular situations, including in financial crises and in limiting short-term inflows; the nature and design of the controls; and their effectivenes and potential costs. The paper also examines the link between prudential policies and capital controls and illstrates the ways in which better prudential practices and accelerated financial reforms could address the risks in cross-border capital transactions.

Control of Long-term International Capital Movements

Control of Long-term International Capital Movements
Author: Alec Cairncross
Publisher: Washington : Brookings Institution
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1973
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Study of a few issues raised by international capital flow, with particular reference to experience of the UK and the USA in their efforts to control the export of capital during the 1960's and early 1970's through foreign exchange controls - analyzes the effects of exchange rate strategy on overseas private investment and the balance of payments, and includes financial policy implications of foreign investment. Bibliography pp 101 to 104, references and statistical tables.

What’s In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls

What’s In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls
Author: Mr.Atish R. Ghosh
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498333222

This paper investigates why controls on capital inflows have a bad name, and evoke such visceral opposition, by tracing how capital controls have been used and perceived, since the late nineteenth century. While advanced countries often employed capital controls to tame speculative inflows during the last century, we conjecture that several factors undermined their subsequent use as prudential tools. First, it appears that inflow controls became inextricably linked with outflow controls. The latter have typically been more pervasive, more stringent, and more linked to autocratic regimes, failed macroeconomic policies, and financial crisis—inflow controls are thus damned by this “guilt by association.” Second, capital account restrictions often tend to be associated with current account restrictions. As countries aspired to achieve greater trade integration, capital controls came to be viewed as incompatible with free trade. Third, as policy activism of the 1970s gave way to the free market ideology of the 1980s and 1990s, the use of capital controls, even on inflows and for prudential purposes, fell into disrepute.

Capital Controls

Capital Controls
Author: Forrest Capie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Free capital movements played an important part in the economic integration and globalisation of the nineteenth century. This work analyses historical experience with capital controls, in Britain and elsewhere, and reviews the theory. It concludes that such controls are damaging and that there is no case for reviving them.

Taming the Tide of Capital Flows

Taming the Tide of Capital Flows
Author: Atish R. Ghosh
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262343762

A comprehensive examination of policy measures intended to help emerging markets contend with large and volatile capital flows. While always episodic in nature, capital flows to emerging market economies have been especially volatile since the global financial crisis. After peaking at $680 billion in 2007, flows to emerging markets turned negative at the onset of crisis in 2008, then rebounded only to recede again during the U.S. sovereign debt downgrade in 2011. Since then, flows have continued to swing wildly, leaving emerging market policy makers wondering whether they can put in place policies during the inflow phase that will soften the blow when flows subsequently recede. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of policy measures intended to help emerging markets contend with large and volatile capital flows. The authors, all IMF experts, explain that, in the spirit of liberalization and deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s, many emerging market governments eliminated capital inflow controls along with outflow controls. By 2012, however, capital inflow controls were again acknowledged as legitimate policy tools. Focusing on the macroeconomic and financial-stability risks associated with capital flows, the authors combine theoretical and empirical analysis to consider the interaction between monetary, exchange rate, macroprudential, and capital control policies to mitigate these risks. They examine the effectiveness of various policy tools, discuss the practical considerations and multilateral implications of their use, and provide concrete policy advice for dealing with capital inflows.