Capital Controls, Collection Costs, and Domestic Public Debt

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Joshua Aizenman

University of Southern California - Department of Economics

Pablo E. Guidotti

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Date Written: September 1990

Abstract

The implications of a large public debt for the implementation of capital controls for an economy where tax revenue collection is costly are examined. Conditions are analyzed under which policymakers will resort to capital controls to reduce the cost of recycling domestic public debt. The linkages between a costly tax collection mechanism, capital controls, am domestic government debt are explored in terms of a two-period m:x1el of optimal taxation. Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate haw capital controls are linked to different domestic public debt levels am to different degrees of efficiency in tax-revenue collection.

Suggested Citation

Aizenman, Joshua and Guidotti, Pablo E., Capital Controls, Collection Costs, and Domestic Public Debt (September 1990). NBER Working Paper No. w3443, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=471482

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Pablo E. Guidotti

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

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Argentina

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