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The distributional impacts of capital controls

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  • Chokri Zehri
  • Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

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The study examines the distributional implications of capital account restrictions on three important welfare measurements of concern for policymakers: income inequality, poverty, and external debt. Two approaches are followed, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), and the local projections regression with impulse response functions (IRFs), and applied to a panel data for 102 countries from 1995 to 2019. First, we identify the capital control periods, and second, we follow behavior of these three measurements after these periods. The results show a decline in income inequality and poverty and a decline in external debt. However, four pathways can affect the intensity of capital controls impacts, the financial development and the strength of the financial institutions, the financial crisis probability, the bargaining power of the labor market, and the cost of international debt. The study highlights that additional policies may be needed to redistribute some of the gains of capital controls.

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  • Chokri Zehri & Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, 2023. "The distributional impacts of capital controls," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(1), pages 138-167, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:irapec:v:37:y:2023:i:1:p:138-167
    DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2021.1965550
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