Capital Control Policy Changes, 1951-1998

Principal Investigator(s): Rector, Chad, George Washington University; Kastner, Scott L., University of Maryland

Summary: This collection measures capital control policy changes using the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) yearly summary of each member state's financial regulations. In the country reports each year, the IMF describes and dates all significant changes in each state's regulations on trade, payments, and capital movement policies. The IMF's written descriptions for each reported change in each country were converted into a set of numeric variables. The survey covered 19 par... (more info)

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Rector, Chad, and Scott L. Kastner. CAPITAL CONTROL POLICY CHANGES, 1951-1998. ICPSR release. San Diego, CA: University of California at San Diego [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03932.v1

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Summary: This collection measures capital control policy changes using the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) yearly summary of each member state's financial regulations. In the country reports each year, the IMF describes and dates all significant changes in each state's regulations on trade, payments, and capital movement policies. The IMF's written descriptions for each reported change in each country were converted into a set of numeric variables. The survey covered 19 parliamentary democracies that have been continuously democratic since 1951, the first year for which the IMF reported regulatory changes. Since this collection focuses on investment capital, it does not include regulatory changes relating to tourist allocations or payments for services. The date of each regulatory change is included as well as dummy variables which measure whether the change, based on IMF descriptions, was restricting or liberalizing.

Subject Terms: democracy, economic policy, international economics, international organizations, international trade, market economy, parliamentary governments, trade policy

Smallest Geographic Unit: nation

Geographic Coverage: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Global

Time Period:

1951--1998

Date of Collection:

1999

Unit of Observation: Events reporting capital control policy changes

Universe: Nineteen countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Data Types: event/transaction data

Data Collection Notes:

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International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions

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Original ICPSR Release: 2004-04-28

2003

Kastner, Scott L., Rector, Chad . International Regimes, Domestic Veto-Players, and Capital Controls Policy Stability. International Studies Quarterly. 47, (1), 1-22.

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