The Potential Welfare Benefit of Capital Controls: the Case of Korea

Shigeto Kitano and Yoichi Matsubayashi ()

No DP2013-09, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This paper develops a stochastic growth model of a small open economy augmented with banks. We estimate the model by using Bayesian methods and examine how capital controls affect the economy's welfare. The results of our our analysis show that there exits an optimal degree of capital controls that achieves a higher level of welfare than that of under perfect capital mobility as a second best policy, and the welfare effect in the case of Korea is not negligible.

Keywords: Capital controls; Welfare; DSGE; Small open economy models; Banks; Emerging market economies; Bayesian estimation; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2013-03
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