Terms of Trade Disturbances, Real Exchange Rates and Welfare: The Role of Capital Controls and Labor Market Distortions

Sebastian Edwards and Jonathan Ostry

No 2907, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Many arguments that have been advanced in favor of maintaining capital control within the EEC have not paid sufficient attention to the welfare consequences of this type of market intervention. Our paper provides a simple, optimizing framework in which the welfare consequences of capital controls can be assessed. Two main issues are considered. First, how do capital controls affect the adjustment of macroeconomic variables to real disturbances? Second, what is the nature of second best arguments for maintaining capital controls given that certain distortions will remain after the European single market is in place in 1992?

Date: 1989-03
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Published as Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 44, pp. 20-34, (1992).

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