A Modernized Approach to Managing the Risks in Cross-Border Capital Movements

July 1, 1999

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Inci Ötker, and R. B. Johnston A Modernized Approach to Managing the Risks in Cross-Border Capital Movements, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed June 24, 2025

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Summary

This paper outlines a “modern” approach to managing risks in cross-border capital movements that is consistent with an environment of increased and liberalized capital flows. Key elements of this approach include: a consistent monetary and exchange rate policy mix to avoid incentives for volatile capital flows; prudential management of the specific risks in capital flows; supporting financial sector reforms; and appropriate sequencing of liberalization. The approach can reduce the potential size of the shocks associated with capital movements and increase the resilience of the financial system to such shocks when they occur; overtime, it is expected to reduce the need for recourse to capital controls.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Capital flows, Exchange rate flexibility, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Capital, Capital controls, Capital flows, Capital mobility, Consistency of policy mix, Control, Cross-border capital movements, Exchange rate, Exchange rate flexibility, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Global, Interest rate, Managed exchange rate arrangement, PDP, Policy consistency, Policy mix, Prudential risk management, Rates of return on asset, Risk, Risk exposure, Risk weight, Time consistency of exchange rate policy

Publication Details

Pages:

24
Volume:

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Series:

Policy Discussion Paper No. 1999/006
Stock No:

PPIEA0061999
ISBN:

9781451972092
ISSN:

1564-5193

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