 Controls on Capital Flows and the Tobin TaxWorking Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven Abstract: The financial crises of the 1990s have given a new impetus to proposals aimed at controlling international capital movements. Well-known economists came out in favour of such controls, giving (some of these) capital controls a new respectability. In this paper we want to evaluate these proposals. In order to do so, it is important to distinguish between the different objectives that are pursued by those who propose capital controls. These objectives are very diverse. The most important ones are the following: A reduction of "excessive" exchange rate variability. A source of revenue for worthwhile international projects (e.g. development aid). Giving the monetary authorities more autonomy in setting domestic interest rates. Stabilisation of an emerging financial crisis due to large scale capital outflows. Preventing excessive capital inflows when countries liberalise their domestic markets. Some proposals for controlling capital movements have been aimed at several of these objectives. The best-known proposal in this category is the Tobin-tax. Other proposals have more narrowly defined objectives. In this paper we analyse some of these proposals and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their stated objectives. Date: 2000-03 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ete:ceswps:ces0002 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven |
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