Capital flow restrictions have long been debated as a tool to manage external financial vulnerabilities, as volatile international capital flows and high external debt can contribute to financial ...

This is an opinion editorial by Craig Deutsch, organizer of Asheville Bitcoiners, designer of The Bitcoin Game and junior editor at Bitcoin Magazine. You may have seen or heard about people in Lebanon ...

So have the fetters been tightened or loosened? Measuring trade barriers is hard because they take many guises: tariffs, ...

While capital controls were the accepted economic orthodoxy of the 1950s and 1960s, they became distinctly heterodox and attracted the ire of the International Monetary Fund by the early-1990s. After ...

The financial crises in the 1990s resurrected the debate on whether emerging markets should stay open to foreign capital or impose capital controls. The stakes are high. Why lift capital Controls?

With rising financial integration, the magnitude and swings in capital flows have increased in the past two decades, intensifying the policy debate on how best to deal with these flows. This paper ...

Russia has decided not to implement partial capital controls following speculation that the extreme measure was being considered to stem the falling ruble, the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti ...

In the wake of the East Asian, Russian, and Brazilian currency crises of the 1990s, a growing chorus of observers and economists (for example, Radelet and Sachs 1998, and Stiglitz 2000) has argued ...

Yesterday, President Mauricio Macri chose to impose capital controls on Argentina. Since being elected, Macri has been reluctant to reform—a gradualist, “do-nothing” president. But, when backed into a ...

Argentina’s government imposed capital controls to halt a slump in foreign currency reserves and the peso that has pushed the country to the brink of default. The central bank set a limit of 5 days ...