This paper analyzes the effectiveness of capital controls, in particular the Chilean experience with the use of the unremunerated reserve requirement. We examine the effects on interest rates, real exchange rate, and the volume and composition of capital inflows. The effects are elusive and it...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of controls on capital inflows. In particular, the authors analyze in great detail the Chilean experience with the use of the unremunerated reserve requirement. They also examine the effects of the controls applied in Chile in 1991-1998 on interest rates,...