Basant Kapur

Singapore%u2019s experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather %u2013 although not completely %u2013 benign one, owing to strong fundamentals and generally well-conceived macro-economic policies. We begin by briefly discussing the experience in 1998 of Hong Kong, another city-state with a well-developed banking system and equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore%u2019s CB system). The discussion serves to identify some %u2018areas of vulnerability%u2019 in the Hong Kong set-up at that time. We next discuss Singapore%u2019s policy background and early experience, and in the light of Hong Kong%u2019s experience are better able to appreciate how Singapore%u2019s policy framewor...

Published:

• Edwards, Sebastian. Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies: Policies, Practices, and Consequences (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility: Singapore's Experience, Basant K. Kapur. in Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies: Policies, Practices and Consequences, Edwards. 2007