Introduction : global market integration, financial crises and policy imperatives / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang -- Reform of the international financial architecture : what has been written? / Jonathan Story -- Costs and benefits of financial globalisation : concepts, evidence and...

This book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of changing business-government relations in China since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the country's increased integration with the global political economy. More specifically, it provides an...

The additive model is an effective dimension-reduction approach that also provides flexibility in modeling the relation between a response variable and key covariates. The literature is largely developed to scalar response and vector covariates. In this article, more complex data are of...

This article presents a critique of the prevailing IMF/World Bank paradigm for financial market governance in developing countries that converges on the restrained role for the state, the neoliberal emphasis on self-governance, and the pursuit of market efficiency. It argues that the largely...

This article suggests a political party-centred explanation of economic policy reforms that differs significantly from the standard theoretical models that emphasise social coalitions, government systems, regime types or electoral cycles. The explanatory approach advanced here focuses on...

In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement market reform policies...