Capital Controls, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy in the World Economy

The essays collected in this volume, written by well-known academics and policy analysts, discuss the impact of increased capital mobility on macroeconomic performance. The authors highlight the most adequate ways to manage the transition from a semi-closed economy to a semi-open one. Additionally, issues related to the measurement of openness, monetary control, optimal exchange rate regimes, sequencing of reforms, and real exchange rate dynamics under different degrees of capital mobility are carefully analyzed.

Introduction Sebastian Edwards; Part I. Monetary policy and Stabilization in Open Economies: 1. Stabilization and liberalization policies in semi-open economies Robert Mundell; 2. Monetary regime choice for a semi-open country Jeffrey A. Frankel; 3. Capital account liberalization: bringing policy in line with reality Manuel Guitián; Part II. Capital Mobility and Macroeconomic Policy in Europe: 4. The lessons of European monetary and exchange rate experience Patrick Minford; 5. Experience with controls on international capital movements in OECD countries: solution or problem for monetary policy? Jeffrey R. Shafer; 6. Real exchange rates and capital flows: EMS experiences Alberto Giovannini; 7. Monetary policy after German unification Wilhelm Nölling; Part III. Capital Controls and Macroeconomic Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region: 8. Capital movements, real asset speculation, and macroeconomic adjustment in Korea Yung Chul Park and Won-Am Park; 9. The determinants of capital controls and their effects on trade balance during the period of capital market liberalization in Japan Shin-ichi Fukuda; 10. Capital mobility and economic policy Michael Dooley; 11. Monetary and exchange rate policies 1973-1991: the Australian and New Zealand experience Victor Argy; Part IV. Capital Mobility and Exchange Rates in Latin America: 12. Exchange rates, inflation, and disinflation: Latin American experiences Sebastian Edwards; 13. Capital inflows to Latin America with reference to the Asian experience Guillermo A. Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman and Carmen M. Reinhart; 14. Opening the capital account: costs, benefits and sequencing James A. Hanson; Index.