Dilemma Not Trilemma? Capital Controls and Exchange Rates with Volatile Capital Flows

The paper considers a standard New Keynesian model of a small open economy with nominal rigidities and studies optimal capital controls. Consistent with the Mundellian view, it finds that the exchange rate regime is key. However, in contrast with the Mundellian view, the paper finds that capital con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Farhi, Emmanuel, Werning, Ivan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109294
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-5575