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| Other authors / contributors: | Sandri, Damiano, author.
International Monetary Fund. Research Department.
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| ISBN: | 1513506463
9781513506463
1513575414
9781513575414
1513581058
9781513581057
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| ISSN: | 1018-5941
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| Notes: | "October 2015."
"Research Department."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).
Online resource; title from pdf title page (IMF.org Web site, viewed October 5, 2015).
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| Summary: | 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.--Abstract.
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| Other form: | 1513506463
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| Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781513506463.001
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