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While new conventional wisdom warns that developing countries should be aware of the risks of premature capital account liberalization, the costs of not removing exchange controls have received much less attention. This paper investigates the negative effects of exchange controls on trade. To...
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liberalization on real variables. In contrast to the prevailing wisdom, I argue that the textbook theory of liberalization holds up … real variables tell us nothing about the empirical validity of the theory, because they do not really test it. This paper … explains why it is that most studies do not really address the theory they set out to test. It also discusses what is necessary …
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Many developing countries do not seem to benefit from capital account liberalizations. We find that labor market frictions can be an important reason for this and develop a model to explain the relationship between unemployment and capital account openness. In our model, a developing country...
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A developing country often pegs its exchange rate to a single currency, such as the U.S. dollar, even though it faces a higher inflation rate than the country to which it is pegged. As a consequence, it experiences real exchange-rate misalignments and a series of easily-anticipated devaluations....
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liberalization on real variables. In contrast to the prevailing wisdom, I argue that the textbook theory of liberalization holds up … real variables tell us nothing about the empirical validity of the theory, because they do not really test it. This paper … explains why it is that most studies do not really address the theory they set out to test. It also discusses what is necessary …
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While new conventional wisdom warns that developing countries should be aware of the risks of premature capital account liberalization, the costs of not removing exchange controls have received much less attention. This paper investigates the negative effects of exchange controls on trade. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756924
While new conventional wisdom warns that developing countries should be aware of the risks of premature capital account liberalization, the costs of not removing exchange controls have received much less attention. This paper investigates the negative effects of exchange controls on trade. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760195