A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms-of-Trade Manipulation

We develop a theory of capital controls as dynamic terms-of-trade manipulation. We study an infinite-horizon endowment economy with two countries. One country chooses taxes on international capital flows in order to maximize the welfare of its representative agent, while the other country is passive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Costinot, Arnaud, Lorenzoni, Guido, Werning, Ivan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press, The 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95955
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-5575
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5503-297X