@techreport{NBERw5725,
 title = "Capital Account Liberalization as a Signal",
 author = "Leonardo Bartolini and Allan Drazen",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "5725",
 year = "1997",
 month = "July",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w5725",
 abstract = {We present a model in which a government's current capital controls policy signals future policies.  Controls on capital outflows evolve in response to news on technology, conditional on government attitudes towards taxation of capital.  When there is uncertainty over government types, a policy of liberal capital outflows sends a favorable signal that may trigger a capital inflow.  This prediction is consistent with the experience of several countries that have liberalized their capital account},
}