Course IMF: Managing Capital Flows
May 24 – 28 and June 7 – 11, 2021
Videoconference
Co-Sponsors
Banco Central do Brasil, International Monetary Fund and CEMLA.
Content
The course starts with a refresher on balance of payments statistics and a description of alternative measures of capital flows and financial (capital) account openness. The second part of the course introduces the determinants of capital flows and the link between these flows and economic growth, macroeconomic volatility, and crisis risk. The course concludes with a discussion of capital account management tools and how they relate to financial regulation and exchange rate intervention.
Objective
This course is devoted to fostering understanding of the dynamics of capital flows and their effects on economic growth, macroeconomic volatility, and risk of crisis.
Aimed at
Junior to mid-level policy makers in central banks.
Coordinator
Dr. Santiago García Verdú
Advisor to the Director General / Research Economist
Phone: +52 (55) 5061-6635
Email: sgarciav@cemla.org