The Open Economic system
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has thanked all SLFP led governments, which ruled the nation after 1977, for continuing with the open economy launched by late President J.R. Jayewardene. We find capital flows transmit recessions in a world with low interest rates and that insurance policies that attempt to spice up national saving are beggar-thy-neighbor. Michael Klein and Jay Shambaugh write that if the peg was totally credible, the chance premium was fixed, and there was no time-variation in capital controls, domestic brief-time period rates of interest should move one to one with that of the bottom country below pegged change … Read the rest