Controls on capital inflows evoke "visceral opposition", thanks in part to the perception of controls on outflows, a working paper published by the IMF contends.

In What's in a name? That which we call capital controls, Atish Ghosh and Mahvash Qureshi investigate why capital inflows have received a bad name, by tracing how they have been used and perceived since the nineteenth century.

The authors quote Bank of Mexico governor Agustin Carstens, attempting to answer a question on capital controls