Capital Account Convertibility

-Narendar Jadhav (Principal Advisor DEAP, RBI)

Impossible Trinity (3 Factors) is the Incompatibility between 3 below factors

Monetary Policy Independence

Open Capital Account (Free International Capital Flows)

Fixed / Managed Exchange Rate Regime

Mundell Fleming Model –> Debate on choice between

Fixed and Floating Exchange Rate policy

The above 3 factors came into picture where all of these cannot be controlled at any given point of time.

Two of the factors can be controlled leaving third to the market forces

Floating : Increases Foreign Exchange volatility

can foresee problems in emerging economies

Following conditions are enabled on emerging economies

High Liability Dollarization — Expenditure switching only though imports

Financial Fragility

Strong Balance Sheet Effects