IMF Working Papers

Capital Account Convertibility: A New Model for Developing Countries

By Peter J. Quirk

July 1, 1994

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Peter J. Quirk Capital Account Convertibility: A New Model for Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

This paper analyzes issues for developing countries considering a move to capital account convertibility. It reviews the relevant literature, including arguments for sequencing, and analyses in a series of charts various features of the foreign exchange market impact of removing controls, as against the alternative of foreign exchange intervention. Finally, it examines recent experiences of capital account liberalization by developing countries in the context of multi-pronged stabilization programs.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Capital inflows, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Exchange restrictions, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Australia and New Zealand, Cambio exchange market handling, Capital, Capital control, Capital controls, Capital convertibility, Capital inflows, Capital liberalization, Caribbean, Control, Eastern Europe, Exchange control regulation, Exchange rate, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Exchange restrictions, Foreign exchange market, Interest rate, Liberalization, Middle East, Reaction function, Results in abandonment, Southeast Asia, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/081

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0811994

  • ISBN:

    9781451955118

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Developing countries comprise Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guyana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

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