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12/02/2016
What’s In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls
Author/Editor: Atish R. Ghosh ; Mahvash Qureshi Publication Date: February 12, 2016
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Summary: 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 advanced countries often employed capital controls to tame speculative inflows during the last century, we conjecture that several factors undermined their subsequent use as prudential tools.





