The Political Economy of Central Banking in Emerging Economies

ISBN-13: 9780367516024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 252 str.

Opis

Central banks are at the heart of economic policy making and their decisions have a significant impact on the social and economic well-being of citizens. This book extends the research on the political economy of central banking by focusing on the emerging economies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the European periphery.

Spis treści

(1) Introduction: Political Economy of Central Banking in Emerging Economies  Part 1 – Global Influences on Central Banking in Emerging Economies: Debates on Central Bank Independence and Institutional Evolution in National Economies  (2) Institutional Metamorphosis: The Backlash Against Independent Central Banking  (3) Central Banks and Institutional Evolution in Transition  (4) Building Confidence ‘On the Ground’:  Encounters Between Finance and the Central Banks of South Africa and Turkey  (5) The impact of political-technocratic consensus on institutional stability and change: Monetary and financial governance in Argentine and Chile  Part 2 – Central Banking in the European Periphery  (6) The impact of European economic governance and EU accession negotiations on the central banks in candidate countries: the case of the National Bank of Serbia  Part 3 – Central Banking in Africa  (7) The political economy of central banking in Nigeria: a resource dependence perspective  (8) The Independence of the South African Reserve Bank: Coming full circle in 25 years?  Part 4 – Central Banking in Latin America  (9) Gender diversity as a tool to make central banks progressive institutions: the case of the Central Bank of Ecuador  (10) The Political Economy of Brazil’s Enigmatic Central Bank, 1988-2018  Part 5 – Central Banking in Asia  (11) Interpreting the Evolution of the Monetary Regime in Russia: The Political Economy of Rent Seeking and Central Banking  (12) The PBOC in the “New Era” of Chinese Political Economy  (13) Conclusion: New Venues of Research on Central Banking in Emerging Economies

O autorze

Mustafa Yağcı is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at İstinye University, İstanbul, Turkey.