This paper attempts to investigate the elements which affect the policy of capital liberalization. It again tries to examine the criteria to lift capital control. We adopt the standard Mundell-Fleming model of a small open economy, including goods, money, foreign exchange markets and aggregate supply curve, to study the effects of exchange rate expectations on real exchange-rate stability and the optimal degree of capital mobility. The main finding is that as the government minimizes the variance of the terms of trade, the crucial determinant of the optimal degree of capital mobility is the speed of adjustment of exchange rate expectations. With different sources of economic shocks and structural parameters, the expectations on exchange rates will react differently, which in turn change the optimal degree of capital mobility.