This paper justifies the relevance of capital controls on the basis of markets' incompleteness, examines the pros and cons of restrictions on capital mobility, surveys the literature's recent attempts to assess the effectiveness of capital controls, and delineates the focal points of debate...

The link between capital controls and stock market volatility is examined using frequency domain techniques. Conventional analyses of the second moments can produce spurious results if the high-frequency volatility is reduced (increased) while the overall volatility is increased (reduced)