Capital Account Liberalization, Capital Flow Patterns, and Policy Responses in the EU's New Member States

November 1, 2005

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Zsofia Arvai. Capital Account Liberalization, Capital Flow Patterns, and Policy Responses in the EU's New Member States, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper discusses the experience of the EU's eight new member countries (EU8) between 1995 and 2003 when the bulk of capital account liberalization took place, focusing on interest-rate-sensitive portfolio flows and financial flows. It takes stock of the lessons from capital flow patterns to draw policy conclusions. There were two distinct groups in terms of the speed of capital account liberalization: rapid liberalizers and cautious liberalizers. The speed of disinflation and the level of public debt were major determinants of the size of interest-rate-sensitive portfolio inflows. Monetary and exchange rate policies were the main instruments used to react to large interest-sensitive inflows, whereas fiscal tightening was seldom used as a direct reaction to inflows.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital account, Capital account liberalization, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Baltics, Candidate country, Capital account, Capital account liberalization, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Central bank, Central European country, Country authorities' agenda, Country's liberalization strategy, Debt management, EU accession, EU candidate country, Government securities market, Interest rate differential, Liberalization strategy, Market share, Monetary policy, Portfolio inflow, Transition country, Transmission mechanism, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

42
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2005/213
Stock No:

WPIEA2005213
ISBN:

9781451862324
ISSN:

1018-5941

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