Arbeitspapier

Capital Controls and Exchange Rate Regimes: An Empirical Investigation

It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the “globalization” of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital controls should be seen as endogenous to the exchange rate regime decision. We find that the durability of a peg (measured on the basis of the growth of international reserves), the political benefits of a commitment to a peg, domestic and foreign inflation (aversion), as well as business cycle volatility and synchronization are the main determinants of capital controls. The empirical analysis is based on data for 53 non-OECD countries covering the period 1980-94.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 433

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Monetary policy
exchange rates
capital controls

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Berger, Helge
Sturm, Jan-Egbert
de Haan, Jakob
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2001

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Berger, Helge
  • Sturm, Jan-Egbert
  • de Haan, Jakob
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2001

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