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  "title": "Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, April 22, 2015",
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  "summary": "This paper presents a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of 10 categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Title: Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset\n- Authors: Andrés Fernández, Michael W Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler, Martin Uribe\n- Date: April 22, 2015\n- Format: IMF Working Papers\n- Summary of content:\n  - Presents a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows.\n  - Covers 10 categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013.\n  - Builds on Schindler (2009) and other datasets based on the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER).\n  - Includes additional asset categories, more countries, and a longer time period.\n  - Discusses dataset construction and characterizes data with respect to prevalence and correlation of controls, aggregation into broader indicators, and comparison with other capital control indicators."
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      "heading": "Dataset construction and scope",
      "content": "- Coverage:\n  - Asset categories covered: 10 categories.\n  - Country coverage: 100 countries.\n  - Time period: 1995 to 2013.\n- Data sources and lineage:\n  - Builds on data in Schindler (2009).\n  - Uses analyses based on the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER).\n- Key methodological themes discussed:\n  - Construction of the dataset.\n  - Aggregation of separate categories into broader indicators.\n  - Comparison with other indicators of capital controls."
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      "content": "- Prevalence and correlation:\n  - Characterizes the prevalence of controls across asset categories.\n  - Analyzes correlation of controls across asset categories and between controls on inflows and controls on outflows.\n- Aggregation and comparison:\n  - Describes aggregation procedures to create broader indicators from the 10 disaggregate categories.\n  - Compares this dataset with other capital control indicators."
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      "content": "- Subjects:\n  - Balance of payments\n  - Capital controls\n  - Capital flows\n  - Financial derivatives\n  - Financial institutions\n  - Foreign direct investment\n  - National accounts\n  - Personal income\n  - Securities\n- Keywords:\n  - Africa\n  - capital account control\n  - capital control\n  - capital control data\n  - capital control indicator\n  - capital control indices\n  - capital control measures\n  - Capital controls\n  - capital flows\n  - costs of capital control\n  - disaggregate capital control category\n  - evolution of capital control\n  - Financial derivatives\n  - Foreign direct investment\n  - Global\n  - inflow control\n  - international financial integration\n  - outflow control\n  - Personal income\n  - Securities\n  - transactions control\n  - WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp1580 - References\n  - wp1580 - References (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp1580 - References (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/capital-control-measures-a-new-dataset-42867"
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    "Authors: Andrés Fernández, Michael W Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler, Martin Uribe",
    "Published: April 22, 2015",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484332177.001",
    "Title: Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset",
    "Authors: Andrés Fernández, Michael W Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler, Martin Uribe",
    "Date: April 22, 2015",
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