Can frictionless small open economy models drivensolely by technology shocks account for businesscycles in developing countries? We do not find evidenceof it. We build a DSGE model that jointly includesa variety of real perturbations in addition totechnology shocks, such as procyclical fiscal...

We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of ten categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data first presented in Martin Schindler (2009), and other datasets based on the analysis of the IMF’s...

We study capital controls on outflows (CCOs) in situations of macroeconomic and financial distress. We present novel empirical evidence indicating that CCO implementation is associated with crises and declines in GDP growth. We then develop a theoretical framework that is consistent with such...