Definitions for "Capital Controls"
Government restrictions on the acquisition of foreign assets or foreign liabilities by domestic citizens, or the acquisition of domestic assets or domestic liabilities by foreigners.
Impending capital controls, imposed by governmental regulatory authorities, can cause investors and fund managers to extract money from one country and send it to another. Such controls, which can be short term, would restrict or completely bar sending of capital outside a country. This Flight of Capital can also reflect fears of a currency, devaluation or general discontent with a political situation.
Capital controls are government rules and regulations that seek to limit or control inflows and outflows of international investment funds. The goal of capital controls is to maintain orderly international capital movements and prevent financial and foreign exchange instability.
regulations placed by a government on the amount of capital residents may hold.