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Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

By Assaf Razin, Prakash Loungani, Chi-Wa Yuen

May 1, 2000

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Assaf Razin, Prakash Loungani, and Chi-Wa Yuen. Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Identifying determinants of the output-inflation tradeoff has long been a key issue in business cycle research. We provide evidence that in countries with greater restrictions on capital mobility, a given reduction in the inflation rate is associated with a smaller loss in output. This result is shown to be consistent with theoretical presumption from a version of the Mundell-Fleming model. Restrictions on capital mobility are measured using the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Rate Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. Estimates of the output-inflation tradeoff are taken from previous studies, viz., Lucas (1973) and Ball, Mankiw and Romer (1988).

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Economic theory, Foreign exchange, Inflation, International trade, Neoclassical theory, Prices, Real exchange rates, Trade balance

Keywords: Africa, Aggregate demand elasticity, Capital controls, Capital immobility, Capital mobility, Immobility case, Inflation, Mobility regime, Neoclassical theory, Openness, Output-inflation tradeoff, Phillips curve, Price level, Real exchange rates, Trade balance, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/087

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0872000

  • ISBN:

    9781451851014

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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