Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153848 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1415
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The empirical analysis of the paper suggests that an FX policy objective and concerns about an overheating of the domestic economy have been the two main motives for the (re-)introduction and persistence of capital controls over the past decade. Capital controls are strongly associated with countries having significantly undervalued exchange rates. Capital controls also appear to be less motivated by worries about financial market volatility or fickle capital flows per se, but rather by concerns about capital inflows triggering an overheating of the economy – in the form of high credit growth, rising inflation and output volatility. Moreover, countries with a high level of capital controls, and those actively implementing controls, tend to be those that have fixed exchange rate regimes, a non-IT monetary policy regime and shallow financial markets. This evidence is consistent with capital controls being used, at least in part, to compensate for the absence of autonomous macroeconomic and prudential policies and effective adjustment mechanisms for dealing with capital flows.
Subjects: 
Capital controls
Capital flows
Economic policy
Exchange Rates
financial stability
G20
JEL: 
F30
F31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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