INTRODUCTION
Large capital flows have dominated the emerging market landscape in recent years, posing
sizeable challenges to policy makers as they have tried to cope with the collateral effects of these
flows, from asset price inflation, to credit booms, to overheating, to real exchange rate
appreciation, and to the buildup of financial vulnerabilities. To lean against capital inflows,
policymakers have increasingly relied on macro- and micro-prudential measures,
regulation/deregulation of capital flows and foreign exchange market intervention (FXI).
However, the effects of many of these policies—let alone their desirability—remain under
debate, especially with regard to FXI. This is the focus of our paper.