Kitano, Shigeto - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 33 (2011) 4, pp. 700-710
This paper computes welfare levels under different degree of capital controls and compares them with the welfare level … mobility is not always optimal and that capital controls may enhance an economy’s welfare level. There exists an optimal degree … of capital-account restriction that achieves a higher level of welfare than that under perfect capital mobility, if the …