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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970438703321

Autore

Binici Mahir

Titolo

Controlling Capital? Legal Restrictions and the Asset Composition of International Financial Flows / / Mahir Binici, Michael Hutchison, Martin Schindler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612844140

9781462392087

1462392083

9781452732909

1452732906

9781282844148

1282844148

9781451873559

1451873557

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

32 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchisonMichael

SchindlerMartin

Disciplina

332.4;332.45

Soggetti

Capital movements - Government policy

International business enterprises

Capital controls

Capital flows

Capital inflows

Capital movements

Capital outflows

Exports and Imports

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

International economics

International Investment

Investment & securities

Investments: Stocks

Long-term Capital Movements

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Pension Funds

Stocks

Colombia



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Literature Review -- A. Individual Country Studies -- B. Multi-Country Studies -- III. Data and Methodology -- A. The Basic Framework -- B. Control Variables: Determinants of Capital Flows -- IV. Results -- A. Reference Results -- B. Asset Categories -- C. Inflows versus Outflows -- D. Composition of Capital Flows -- V. Extensions -- VI. Conclusion -- Tables -- 1. Descriptive  Statistics -- 2. Aggregate Capital  Flows and Controls -- 3. Disaggregated  Capital Flows and Controls -- 4. Disaggregated  Capital Flows and Controls: Composition Effects -- 5. Disaggregated  Capital Flows and Simultaneous Inflow and Outflow Controls -- 6. Disaggregated  Capital Flows, Controls and Country Groups -- 7. Disaggregated   Capital Flows and Contemporaneous and Lagged -- Figures -- 1. International  Financial Integration, 1970-2006 -- 2. The Composition of  Capital Controls (sample average) -- 3. The Composition of  Capital Controls (country level) -- Appendix Tables -- A1. List of Countries in  the Data set -- A2. Data Description  and Sources -- A3. Disaggregated  Capital Flows and Controls -- A4. Disaggregated  Capital Flows and Controls: Country and Time FE -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

How effective are capital account restrictions? We provide new answers based on a novel panel data set of capital controls, disaggregated by asset class and by inflows/outflows, covering 74 countries during 1995-2005. We find the estimated effects of capital controls to vary markedly across the types of capital controls, both by asset categories, by the direction of flows, and across countries' income levels. In particular, both debt and equity controls can substantially reduce outflows, with little effect on capital inflows, but only high-income countries appear able to effectively impose debt (outflow) controls. The results imply that capital controls can affect both the volume and the composition of capital flows.