Capital Inflows: The Role of Controls

By Jonathan David Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Karl F Habermeier, Marcos d Chamon, Mahvash S Qureshi, Dennis B. S. Reinhardt

February 19, 2010

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Jonathan David Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Karl F Habermeier, Marcos d Chamon, Mahvash S Qureshi, and Dennis B. S. Reinhardt Capital Inflows: The Role of Controls, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

With the global economy beginning to emerge from the financial crisis, capital is flowing back to emerging market countries (EMEs). These flows, and capital mobility more generally, allow countries with limited savings to attract financing for productive investment projects, foster the diversification of investment risk, promote intertemporal trade, and contribute to the development of financial markets. In this sense, the benefits from a free flow of capital across borders are similar to the benefits from free trade (see Reaping the Benefits of Financial Globalization, IMF Occasional Paper 264, 2008), and imposing restrictions on capital mobility means foregoing, at least in part, these benefits, owing to the distortions and resource misallocation that controls give rise to (see Edwards and Ostry, 1992, for an example of how capital controls interact with other distortions in the economy).

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Exchange rates, Foreign direct investment, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Banking system, Capital, Capital control, Capital controls, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Capital mobility, Control, Control measure, EME, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, Foreign direct investment, Global, Policy control, SPN

Publication Details

Pages:

29
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Staff Position Note No. 2010/004
Stock No:

SPNEA2010004
ISBN:

9781462347513
ISSN:

2617-6742

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