Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

ByAssaf Razin, Prakash Loungani, Chi-Wa Yuen

May 1, 2000

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Summary

Identifying determinants of the output-inflation tradeoff has long been a key issue in business cycle research. We provide evidence that in countries with greater restrictions on capital mobility, a given reduction in the inflation rate is associated with a smaller loss in output. This result is shown to be consistent with theoretical presumption from a version of the Mundell-Fleming model. Restrictions on capital mobility are measured using the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Rate Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. Estimates of the output-inflation tradeoff are taken from previous studies, viz., Lucas (1973) and Ball, Mankiw and Romer (1988).

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Economic theory, Foreign exchange, Inflation, International trade, Neoclassical theory, Prices, Real exchange rates, Trade balance

Keywords: Africa, aggregate demand elasticity, capital controls, capital immobility, capital mobility, immobility case, Inflation, mobility regime, Neoclassical theory, openness, Output-inflation tradeoff, Phillips curve, price level, Real exchange rates, Trade balance, WP

Pages:
22
Volume:
2000
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451851014.001
Issue:
087
Series:
Working Paper No. 2000/087
Stock No:
WPIEA0872000
ISBN:
9781451851014
ISSN:
1018-5941

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