National Economic Identity and Capital Mobility

State-Business Relations in Latin America
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-531-18528-6
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, 175 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Globale Politische Ökonomie

Why has capital account liberalization been a durable policy in some countries, but not in others? The book uses the contrast between the path pursued by Peru and Colombia regarding capital account policy during the last twenty years in order to identify two critical factors to account for this puzzle. First, changes in domestic informal institutions are a necessary element of sustainable capital account policy choices. Second, sustainable capital account liberalization presupposes that business-government relations privilege the interests of economic sectors that depend on the unfettered flow of international capital and are largely unaffected by exchange-rate volatility over the interests of exporters of non-traditional goods worried about exchange-rate appreciation in the context of capital account openness.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leiteritz, Ralf J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Economics of Capital Account Policy.- The International Monetary Fund and Capital Account Liberalization. A Case of Failed Norm Institutionalization.- Capital Account Policy in Peru. The Institutional Legacies of the Economic Crisis.- Capital Account Policy in Colombia. The Institutional Legacies of Pragmatism.- Conclusions.- Appendix 1: List of Interviewees.- Appendix 2: Survey Questions for Foreign-trained Elite Economists in Colombia and Peru.

Über Autor(innen)

Ralf J. Leiteritz is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.