Are Capital Controls and Central Bank Intervention Effective?

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
625
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
F31, F32, E58, C52
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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