Capital Controls, Capital Flow Contractions, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability

Sebastian Edwards

NBER Working Paper No. 12852
Issued in January 2007

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I have benefited from discussions with Ed Leamer. I thank Roberto Alvarez for his comments and Alberto Naudon for his excellent assistance. I am particularly grateful to Michael Hutchison for his very perceptive comments and suggestions. I also thank participants at the UCSC-JIMF Conference and at seminars at Fedesarrollo and the Bank of Spain for very useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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