short-term capital movement

Towards the end of the 1960s, however, the adjustable peg system came under increasing pressure from the growth in short-term capital movements.

It was he personally who called for a tax on short-term capital movements and for the resulting revenue to go to poverty programmes.

On a day-to-day basis, the market is instead dominated by short-term capital movements in search of quick profits or a hedge against exchange risks.

An escape clause was, however, built in whereby in emergencies short-term capital movements could be controlled for periods of up to six months.

His earliest book was International Short-Term Capital Movements (1937).

Contrary to what some critics seem to believe, the MAI would not facilitate short-term capital movements. The underlying aim is quite the opposite: promoting long-term investment.

International Short-term Capital Movements (NY: Columbia University Press, 1937)

As for the argument that this initiative would increase uncertainty, very short-term capital movements are specifically intended to play on uncertainty and to bet on changes between currencies or various short-term financial assets.

The danger that a crisis in the system can be triggered by short-term capital movements is too great for us to allow those short-term movements to continue in the same unimpeded and uncontrolled way as in the past.

The September changes were intended to make the EMS less vulnerable to external influences, and to this end further agreement on foreign exchange intervention policies and interest rate policies was made with the particular objective of reducing incentives for short-term capital movements.

The financial crisis of 1997-99 temporarily gave those who claim that globalization is bad for workers everywhere a bit of ammunition, but the crisis did not go on forever, and anyway the solution to future crises surely involves some policing of short-term capital movements rather than a retreat from globalization as a whole.