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Liberalizing China's capital account may impose profound implications on the RMB exchange rate, monetary policy … autonomy, Chinese and the world economy. Owing to the scarcity of proper measurements for China's capital controls, rigorous … studies on the effectiveness and implications of China's capital controls are limited. We contribute to the literature by …
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We examine the role of capital account policy pertaining to productivity growth and labor allocation at the sectoral level. Using panel data from 45 countries from 1985–2012, we find that capital controls combined with reserve accumulation — strategic capital account policy — contribute to...
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One of the most important elements of financial markets' globalization is capital account liberalization. Joining the international financial markets can bring both benefits and costs to the given country. Having removed obstacles to the free flow of capital countries expect a more dynamic...
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This paper examines questions related to possible capital account liberalisation in the Mediterranean countries. First, we provide an overview of the extent to which these countries have capital controls along with their exchange rate regimes and some basic macroeconomic aggregates. Second, we...
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In the late eighties, many developing countries followed the example of the most advanced countries and opened their capital account (K.A.) in an attempt to reap new gains from increased integration with the world economy. By 2000, after the wave of financial and currency crises that hurt the...
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The paper analyses the causes of the Asian Financial Crisis 1977/79. The increase in cross-border capital mobility and the issues of regulating sequencing of trade liberating and capital account convertiblity are also discussed. A typology of generation-models of currency crises is analyzed. It...
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This article critically evaluates the argument that, if developing countries had better institutions and policies and deeper financial markets, they would receive a boost to growth from capital account liberalization. The existing empirical record is ambiguous and leaves unanswered many of the...
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This paper recounts Chile's experience with capital account policies since the 1990s. We present how two external shocks were confronted under very different macroeconomic and capital account frameworks. We show that during the 1997-98 Asian-LTCM-Russia crisis, a closed capital account and...
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Countries' capital account policies might be contagious in the sense that domestic policies are driven by other countries' policies. A model of strategic interactions is developed to show that countries' best response to policy changes elsewhere consists in imitating this policy. Using a spatial...
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