Short and Long-Run Integration : Do Capital Controls Matter?
The authors study whether capital controls affect the link between domestic and foreign stock market prices and interest rates. To examine the characteristics of international market integration and the effects of capital controls in the short and...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1561500/short-long-run-integration-capital-controls-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19570 |
Summary: | The authors study whether capital
controls affect the link between domestic and foreign stock
market prices and interest rates. To examine the
characteristics of international market integration and the
effects of capital controls in the short and long run, they
apply band-pass filter techniques to data from six emerging
economics during the 1990s. They find that markets seem to
be linked more at longer horizons. Equity prices seem to be
more connected internationally than interest rates. They
also find little evidence that controls effectively segment
domestic markets from foreign markets. And when they do, the
effects seem to be short-lived. Moreover, the effects of
controls on outflows do not seem to differ from those of
controls on inflows. For example, controls on outflows in
Venezuela during the 1994 crisis, and unremunerated reserve
requirements in Chile and Colombia during a capital-inflow
episode, seem to have shielded domestic markets at the most
at very high frequencies. The degree of financial
sophistication does not seem to affect the authors'
conclusion on the insulation provided by capital controls.
True, more developed financial markets, such as those in
Brazil, are more closely linked to international markets
than those in Colombia and Venezuela, which are far more
illiquid. But capital controls do not seem to provide an
extra cushion against international spillovers even in less
developed markets. |
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