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Borrowing Credibility: Global Banks and Monetary Regimes

Jana Grittersová 2017
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Nations with credible monetary regimes borrow at lower interest rates in international markets and are less likely to suffer speculative attacks and currency crises. While scholars typically attribute credibility to domestic institutions or international agreements, Jana Grittersová argues that when reputable multinational banks headquartered in Western Europe or North America open branches and subsidiaries within a nation, they enhance that nation's monetary credibility.

These banks enhance credibility by promoting financial transparency in the local system, improving the quality of banking regulation and supervision, and by serving as private lenders of last resort. Reputable multinational banks provide an enforcement mechanism for publicized economic policies, signaling to international financial markets that the host government is committed to low inflation and stable currency.

Grittersová examines actual changes in government behavior of nations trying to gain legitimacy in international financial markets, and the ways in which perceptions of these nations change in relation to multinational banks. In addition to quantitative analysis of over 80 emerging-market countries, she offers extensive case studies of credibility building in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, Argentina in 2001, and the global financial crisis of 2008. Grittersová illuminates the complex interactions between multinational banks and national policymaking that characterize the process of financial globalization to reveal the importance of market confidence in a world of mobile capital. 

 

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Series
  • Michigan Studies in International Political Economy
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-12308-7 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-13046-7 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Political Science:International Relations
  • Political Science:Political Economy
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Acronyms
  • 1. The Puzzle of Credibility in International Markets
  • 2. A Theory of Credibility through Financial Integration
  • 3. Foreign Bank Advantage in Comparative Perspective
  • 4. Currency Boards and Foreign Bank Presence
  • 5. Inflation Targeting and Foreign Bank Presence
  • 6. Reputation in Crisis
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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