01859cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003826 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451862324 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Arvai, Zsofia. Capital Account Liberalization, Capital Flow Patterns, and Policy Responses in the EU's New Member States / Zsofia Arvai. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005. 1 online resource (42 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper discusses the experience of the EU's eight new member countries (EU8) between 1995 and 2003 when the bulk of capital account liberalization took place, focusing on interest-rate-sensitive portfolio flows and financial flows. It takes stock of the lessons from capital flow patterns to draw policy conclusions. There were two distinct groups in terms of the speed of capital account liberalization: rapid liberalizers and cautious liberalizers. The speed of disinflation and the level of public debt were major determinants of the size of interest-rate-sensitive portfolio inflows. Monetary and exchange rate policies were the main instruments used to react to large interest-sensitive inflows, whereas fiscal tightening was seldom used as a direct reaction to inflows. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/213 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2005/213/001.2005.issue-213-en.xml IMF e-Library