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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814665803321

Autore

Tamirisa Natalia T

Titolo

Do macroeconomic effects of capital controls vary by their type? : evidence from Malaysia / / prepared by Natalia T. Tamirisa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, Policy Development and Review Dept., 2004

ISBN

1-4623-8038-7

1-4527-5737-2

1-281-15564-0

9786613777003

1-4518-9031-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/04/3

Soggetti

Capital movements - Malaysia

Financial crises - Asia

Macroeconomics

Malaysia Economic conditions

Malaysia Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

"January 2004"--Caption.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. CAPITAL FLOWS AND THEIR REGULATION IN MALAYSIA""; ""III. WHAT DO THE QUANTITATIVE DATA TELL US?""; ""IV. AN ERROR-CORRECTION MODEL WITH CAPITAL CONTROLS""; ""APPENDIX""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines how the macroeconomic effects of capital controls vary depending on which type of international financial transaction they cover. Drawing on Malaysia's experiences in regulating the capital account during the 1990s, it finds, in an error-correction model, that capital controls generally have statistically insignificant effects on the exchange rate. Controls on portfolio outflows and on bank and foreign exchange operations facilitate reductions in the domestic interest rate, while controls on portfolio inflows have the opposite effect, in line with



the theoretical priors. Controls on international transactions in the domestic currency and stock market operations have statistically insignificant effects on the interest rate differential.