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Capital Controls or Real Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, a new policy paradigm has emerged in which old-fashioned policies such as capital controls and other government distortions have become part of the standard policy tool kit (so called macro- prudential policies). On the wave of this seemingly unanimous policy consensus, a new strand of theoretical literature contends that capital controls are welfare enhancing and can be justified rigorously because of second-best considerations. Within the same theoretical framework adopted in this fast-growing literature, this paper shows that a credible commitment to support the exchange rate in crisis times always welfare-dominates prudential capital controls, as it can achieve unconstrained allocation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-393

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
International Finance Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Open Economy Macroeconomics

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Benigno, Gianluca
Chen, Huigang
Otrok, Christopher
Rebucci, Alessandro
Young, Eric
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
(wo)
Washington, DC
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Benigno, Gianluca
  • Chen, Huigang
  • Otrok, Christopher
  • Rebucci, Alessandro
  • Young, Eric
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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