Why do emerging markets liberalize capital outflow controls? Fiscal versus net capital flow concerns

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• 作者：Joshua Aizenman ; Gurnain Kaur Pasricha
• 关键词：Capital controls ; Revenues from financial repression ; Capital inflows management
• 刊名：Journal of International Money and Finance
• 出版年：December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：39
• 期：Complete
• 页码：28-64
• 全文大小：1360 K

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In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that motivated emerging economies to change their capital outflow controls in the recent decades. Liberalization of capital outflow controls can allow emerging market economies (EMEs) to reduce net capital inflow (NKI) pressures, but may cost their governments the fiscal revenues that external financial repression generates. Our results indicate that external repression revenues in EMEs declined substantially in the 2000's compared with the 1980's. In line with this decline in external repression revenues and their growth accelerations in 2000's, concerns related to net capital inflows took predominance over fiscal concerns in the decisions to聽liberalize capital outflow controls. Emerging markets facing high聽volatility in net capital inflows and higher short-term balance sheet exposures聽liberalized outflows less. Countries eased outflows more in response to higher stock price appreciation, higher appreciation pressures in the exchange market and higher real exchange rate volatility. Non-IT monetary policy regimes also liberalized outflows more in response to greater reserves accumulation and higher NKI.