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Many national governments choose to hinder the process of financial integration by imposing restrictions on capital mobility. The majority of the International Monetary Fund member nations have enforced capital controls over the past decade. This dissertation attempts to advance…

This dissertation includes three studies on the use of capital controls in Malaysia. The first two studies focus on empirical investigations of the effectiveness of capital controls. The last study focuses on modeling the determinants of political risk premium associated with po…

This dissertation is a political sociological analysis of the cross-border mobility of capital. It seeks to determine the political and economic conditions under which emerging economies embrace as well as curtail capital mobility, with a special emphasis on analyzing policies o…