Format:
1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781513506463
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1513506463
Series Statement:
IMF working paper WP/15/218
Content:
International capital flows can create significant financial instability in emerging economies because of pecuniary externalities associated with exchange rate movements. Does this make it optimal to impose capital controls or should policymakers rely on domestic macroprudential regulation? This paper presents a tractable model to show that it is desirable to employ both types of instruments: Macroprudential regulation reduces overborrowing, while capital controls increase the aggregate net worth of the economy as a whole by also stimulating savings. The two policy measures should be set higher the greater an economy's debt burden and the higher domestic inequality. In our baseline calibration based on the East Asian crisis countries, we find optimal capital controls and macroprudential regulation in the magnitude of 2 percent. In advanced countries where the risk of sharp exchange rate depreciations is more limited, the role for capital controls subsides. However, macroprudential regulation remains essential to mitigate booms and busts in asset prices
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Korinek, Anton Capital Controls or Macroprudential Regulation? Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015 ISBN 9781513506463
Language:
English
Keywords:
Arbeitspapier
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Graue Literatur
DOI:
10.5089/9781513506463.001
