Overview

Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades. Many developing countries, often at the behest of international financial institutions such as the IMF, opened their capital accounts and liberalized their domestic financial markets as part of the wave of liberalization that characterized the 1980s and 1990s and in doing so exposed their economies to increased risk and volatility. Now with even the IMF acknowledging the risks inherent in capital market liberalization, the central intellectual battle over the effects of capital market liberalization has for the most part ended. Though this new understanding of the consequences of capital market liberalization is reshaping many policy discussions among academics and international institutions, ideological and vested interests remain. Critical policy debates also remain, such as how much government should intervene and what tools are available. Although capital market liberalization might not produce the promised benefits, many economists and policymakers still worry about the costs of intervention. Do these costs exceed the benefits? What are the best kinds of interventions, under what circumstances? To answer these questions, we have to understand why capital market liberalization has failed to enhance growth, why it has resulted in greater instability, why the poor appear to have borne the greatest burden, and why the advocates of capital market liberalization were so wrong. Bringing together some of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field, this volume provides an analysis of both the risks associated with capital market liberalization and the alternative policy options available to enhance macroeconomic management.

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Author:   José Antonio Ocampo (, Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue) ,  Joseph E. Stiglitz (, Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9780199238446

ISBN 10:   0199238448
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   01 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: José Antonio Ocampo, Shari Spiegel, and Joseph E. Stiglitz: Capital Account Liberalization and Development 2: Sergio L. Schmukler: The Benefits and Risks of Financial Globalization 3: Joseph E. Stiglitz: Capital Market Liberalization, Globalization, and the IMF 4: Roberto Frenkel: From the Boom in Capital Inflows to Financial Traps 5: Andrew Charlton: Poverty and Inequality 6: K. S. Jomo, Gerald Epstein, Ilene Grabel: Capital Management Techniques in Developing Countries: Managing Capital Flows in Malaysia, India, and China 7: José Antonio Ocampo and Gabriel Palma: Role of Preventative Capital Account Regulation 8: Martin Khor: The Malaysian Experience in Financial-Economic Crisis Management: An Alternative to the IMF-style approach 9: Liliana Rojas-Suarez: Domestic Financial Regulations in Developing Countries 10: Stephany Griffith-Jones and Avinash Persaud: The Pro-Cyclical Impact of Basle II on Emerging Markets 11: Randall Dodd: Derivatives and CML 12: Benu Schneider: Codes and Standards

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José Antonio Ocampo is University Professor at Columbia University and co-President of Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Prior to that he served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He has held a number of posts in the Government of Colombia, including those of Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department and Minister of Agriculture and was former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). His academic pursuits have included service as Director of the Foundation for Higher Education and Development, Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Yale and Oxford Universities. Joseph E. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. He is University Professor at Columbia University and co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, which he founded in 2000. He was Chair of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors from 1995-97 and Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.His best known recent publications include 'Making Globalization Work' (2006), 'Fair Trade for All' (2005), 'Globalization and its Discontents' (2002) and 'The Roaring Nineties' (2003).

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