Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2020
capital controls respond to macroprudential or mercantilist motivations. I explore this question using a novel, weekly dataset … on capital control actions in 21 emerging economies from 2001 to 2015. I introduce a new proxy for mercantilist … mercantilist and macroprudential motivations. Policymakers respond to trade competitiveness concerns by using both instruments …