Capital Controls, Exchange
Rates, and Monetary Policy in the World Economy
Edited by Sebastian Edwards
Contributors
Sebastian Edwards, Robert
Mundell, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Manuel Guitián, Patrick Minford, Jeffrey R. Shafer, Alberto
Giovannini, Yung Chul Park, Won-Am Park, Shin-ichi Fukuda, Michael Dooley, Victor Argy,
Guillermo A. Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman, Carmen M. Reinhart, James A. Hanson
Description
The essays collected in this
volume, written by well-known academics and policy analysts, discuss the impact of
increased capital mobility on macroeconomic performance. The authors highlight the most
adequate ways to manage the transition from a semi-closed economy to a semi-open one.
Additionally, issues related to the measurement of openness, monetary control, optimal
exchange rates regimes, sequencing of reforms, and real exchange rate dynamics under
different degrees of capital mobility are carefully analyzed. The book is divided into
four parts after the editor's introduction. The first part contains the general
analytics of monetary policy in open economies. Parts two to four deal with diverse
regional experiences, covering Europe, the Asian Pacific region, and Latin America. The
papers on which the essays are based were originally presented at a conference on Monetary
Policy in Semi-Open Economies, held in Seoul, Korea in November 1992.
Reviews
'This book's great
advantage is its breadth. Perhaps no other single book reviews and interprets the choice
of a variety of different exchange rate regimes, the optimal currency area debate, and the
conditions that have to be satisfied to make a single currency area work.' Andrew
Hughes Hallett, University of Strathclyde
'This is a timely
collection covering a well-chosen range of topics and countries, attempting in several
papers not only to report the broad features of countries' experiences but also to
provide some preliminary tests of central relationships. The collection as a whole offers
a good balance of theory, history, and quantitative analysis.' John F. Helliwell,
University of British Columbia
Chapter Contents
Introduction Sebastian
Edwards;
Part I. Monetary policy and
Stabilization in Open Economies: 1. Stabilization and liberalization policies in semi-open
economies Robert Mundell; 2. Monetary regime choice for a semi-open country Jeffrey A.
Frankel; 3. Capital account liberalization: bringing policy in line with reality Manuel
Guitián;
Part II. Capital Mobility and
Macroeconomic Policy in Europe: 4. The lessons of European monetary and exchange rate
experience Patrick Minford; 5. Experience with controls on international capital movements
in OECD countries: solution or problem for monetary policy? Jeffrey R. Shafer; 6. Real
exchange rates and capital flows: EMS experiences Alberto Giovannini; 7. Monetary policy
after German unification Wilhelm Nölling
Part III. Capital Controls
and Macroeconomic Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region: 8. Capital movements, real asset
speculation, and macroeconomic adjustment in Korea Yung Chul Park and Won-Am Park; 9. The
determinants of capital controls and their effects on trade balance during the period of
capital market liberalization in Japan Shin-ichi Fukuda; 10. Capital mobility and economic
policy Michael Dooley; 11. Monetary and exchange rate policies 1973-1991: the Australian
and New Zealand experience Victor Argy
Part IV. Capital Mobility and
Exchange Rates in Latin America: 12. Exchange rates, inflation, and disinflation: Latin
American experiences Sebastian Edwards; 13. Capital inflows to Latin America with
reference to the Asian experience Guillermo A. Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman and Carmen M.
Reinhart; 14. Opening the capital account: costs, benefits and sequencing James A. Hanson;
Index.
480 pages