TY - BOOK AU - Obstfeld,Maurice AU - Taylor,Alan M. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Globalization and Capital Markets T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - March 2002; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - The ebb and flow of international capital since the nineteenth century illustrates recurring difficulties, as well as the alternative perspectives from which policymakers have tried to confront them. This paper is devoted to documenting these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them. Economic theory and economic history together can provide useful insights into events of the past and deliver relevant lessons for today. We argue that theories of how international capital mobility has evolved must be understood within the framework of the basic policy trilemma constraining an open economy's choice of monetary regime UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w8846 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w8846 ER -