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The 15 pages that link to Capital controls, each with the reason it gives.

• Bretton Woods systemRelated: The system only held together because speculative money movements were largely forbidden.

• Asian financial crisisRelated: Malaysia’s controls became a lasting reference point in debates over crisis management.

• Balance of paymentsRelated: They alter financial flows recorded in the accounts and can be used during external pressure.

• Foreign exchange reservesCompared with: Controls can reduce reserve losses by limiting the outflows reserves might otherwise meet.

• Capital flightCompared with: They are imposed to slow the transfers that accelerate during capital flight.

• Fixed exchange rateRelated: Controls can limit capital flows that would otherwise challenge the target rate.

• Currency pegRelated: Controls can reduce flows that would otherwise make the peg harder to sustain.

• Impossible trinityRelated: They limit capital mobility, allowing a country more room to set interest rates while pegging its currency.

• Foreign-exchange interventionCompared with: Unlike intervention trades, controls directly limit the movement of capital across borders.

• Interest rate parityRelated: They can obstruct the arbitrage trades that ordinarily enforce parity.

• Reserve currencyCompared with: Controls can limit the openness that helps a currency circulate internationally.

• RenminbiRelated: China’s capital controls limit the renminbi’s convertibility and international circulation.

• James TobinCompared with: They are a broader alternative to Tobin’s targeted transaction tax.

• Hard currencyCompared with: Strict controls can prevent a currency from being freely convertible.

• International financeCompared with: They limit financial openness to pursue goals such as monetary autonomy or stability.