Volume/Issue: 2016/25
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Atish Ghosh
, and
Mahvash Qureshi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498332835.001
ISBN: 9781498332835
This paper investigates why controls on capital inflows have a bad name, and evoke such visceral opposition, by tracing how capital controls have been used and perceived, since the late nineteenth century. While ad...
Volume/Issue: 2016/25
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Atish Ghosh
, and
Mahvash Qureshi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498332835
This paper investigates why controls on capital inflows have a bad name, and evoke such visceral opposition, by tracing how capital controls have been used and perceived, since the late nineteenth century. While ad...
Volume/Issue: 2015/256
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Swarnali Ahmed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
December
2015
ISBN: 9781498367196
After more than six years of ultra-low interest rates, a Fed liftoff (rate hike) is just a matter of time. This paper goes back to history to understand the spillover effect - or what is termed in the paper as the...
Volume/Issue: 2015/256
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Swarnali Ahmed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
December
2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498367196.001
ISBN: 9781498367196
After more than six years of ultra-low interest rates, a Fed liftoff (rate hike) is just a matter of time. This paper goes back to history to understand the spillover effect - or what is termed in the paper as the...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Hamid Faruqee
, and
Krishna Srinivasan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
August
2013
ISBN: 9781475573664
2
The chapter first discusses domestic reasons why countries may want to reduce current account deficits and surpluses, and then turns to multilateral consideration...
Volume/Issue: 2011/246
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Maelan Le Goff
, and
Kangni Kpodar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2011
ISBN: 9781463923259
Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remitt...
Volume/Issue: 2011/246
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Maelan Le Goff
, and
Kangni Kpodar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463923259.001
ISBN: 9781463923259
Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remitt...
Volume/Issue: 2009/276
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jaewoo Lee
,
Yongsung Chang
, and
Sun-Bin Kim
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
2009
ISBN: 9781451874211
We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated...
Volume/Issue: 2009/276
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jaewoo Lee
,
Yongsung Chang
, and
Sun-Bin Kim
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451874211.001
ISBN: 9781451874211
We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated...
Volume/Issue: 2009/127
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jörg Decressin
, and
Emil Stavrev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2009
ISBN: 9781451872743
A fear about EMU was that in the absence of national currencies, country-specific shocks would result in greater current account divergences between member states. This paper finds that divergences across euro-area...