Capital Controls and Financial Frictions in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku
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Kenya Takaku: Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University, Japan

No DP2016-34, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: We develop a small open economy model with financial frictions between domestic banks and foreign investors, and examine the welfare-improving effect of capital controls. We show that capital controls are effective in addressing the amplification effect due to financial frictions. As the degree of financial frictions increases, the welfare-improving effect of capital controls becomes larger and a more aggressive policy rule is appropriate. Comparing two economies, one with and one without “liability dollarization,” we also find that the welfare-improving effect of capital controls is larger in the presence of “liability dollarization,” and the difference between the effects becomes larger as the degree of financial frictions increases.

Keywords: Capital control; Financial frictions; Financial intermediaries; Balance sheets; Small open economy; Liability dollarization; DSGE; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E69 F32 F38 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2016-10, Revised 2017-05
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