Year: 2002
Type: report
Abstract: The ebb and flow of international capital since the nineteenth century illustrates recurring difficulties, as well as the alternative perspectives from which policymakers have tried to confront them.This paper is devoted to documenting these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them.Economic theory and economic history together can provide useful insights into events of the past and deliver relevant lessons for today.We argue that theories of how international capital mobility has evolved must be understood within the framework of the basic policy trilemma constraining an open economy's choice of monetary regime.
DOI: 10.3386/w8846
Authors: Maurice Obstfeld, Alan Taylor
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2130014692