RIEB Discussion Paper Series No.2013-09
Title
The Potential Welfare Benefit of Capital Controls: The Case of Korea
Abstract
This paper develops a stochastic growth model of a small open economy augmented with banks. We estimate the model by using Bayesian methods and examine how capital controls affect the economy's welfare. The results of our our analysis show that there exits an optimal degree of capital controls that achieves a higher level of welfare than that of under perfect capital mobility as a second best policy, and the welfare effect in the case of Korea is not negligible.
Keywords
Capital controls, Welfare, DSGE, Small open economy models, Banks, Emerging market economies, Bayesian estimation, Korea
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Yoichi MATSUBAYASHI
Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan