In the last decade, some emerging economies have imposed capital controls to reduce the volatility of capital flows and to manage the exchange rate. However, a capital controls tightening in some countries is likely to deflect capital flows to other countries with no controls in place. In this...

I built a three-country business cycle model with one AE and two EMEs to analyze the spillover effects arising from capital controls. I find that, following a push-factor shock from the AE, if one EME tightens capital controls, the other EME experiences an additional wave of foreign investments....

We set up a DSGE model to study the macroeconomic consequences of a foreign central bank digital currency (CBDC) available to residents in a small open economy. We find that a gradual and permanent increase in the domestic households' preferences toward the foreign CBDC is recessionary,...