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In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...
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. Capital controls or domestic macro-prudential measures that limit short-term borrowing can improve welfare …
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We show that capital controls have large adverse effects on misallocation, exports and welfare using a dynamic Melitz …. Social welfare falls and welfare of exporters falls significantly more. LTV regulation cuts credit by the same amount at …
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empirically controversial. We apply theory and empirics to the interwar data and find strong support for the logic of the trilemma …
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This paper develops a simple theory of capital controls as dynamic terms-of-trade manipulation. We study an infinite … the welfare of its representative agent, while the other country is passive. We show that capital controls are not guided … international capital flows converge to zero. Although our theory emphasizes interest rate manipulation, the country's net financial …
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raised welfare substantially in the ROW, but at the expense of much lower U.S. welfare. Given the U.S.'s goal of keeping … capital within these countries to preserve their stability during this period, we interpret lower U.S. welfare due to Bretton …
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In spite of significant institutional and macroeconomic reforms over the last decade or two, capital flows to developing economies remain highly volatile. In 1996, net private capital flows to emerging markets reached US$230 billions; by 1997 these flows had been cut in half; by 1998 halved...
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Three things happen when emerging economies open their stock markets to foreign investors. First, the aggregate dividend yield falls by 240 basis points. Second, the growth rate of the capital stock increases by an average of 1.1 percentage points per year. Third, the growth rate of output per...
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