Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries (The MIT Press)
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Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries (The MIT Press)

Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries (The MIT Press)

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Javier Santiso (Author)  

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A data-driven investigation of the interaction between politics and finance in emerging markets, focusing on Latin America. Politics matter for financial markets and financial markets matter for politics, and nowhere is this relationship more apparent than in emerging markets. In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance in countries that have recently experienced both economic and democratic transitions. He focuses on elections, investigating whether there is a "democratic premium"-whether financial markets and investors tend to react positively to elections in emerging markets. Santiso devotes special attention to Latin America, where over the last three decades many countries became democracies, with regular elections, just as they also became open economies dependent on foreign capital and dominated bond markets. Santiso's analysis draws on a unique set of primary databases (developed during his years at the OECD Development Centre) covering an entire decade: more than 5,000 bank and fund manager portfolio recommendations on emerging markets. Santiso examines the trajectory of Brazil, for example, through its presidential elections of 2002, 2006, and 2010 and finds a decoupling of financial and political cycles that occurred also in many other emerging economies. He charts this evolution through the behavior of brokers, analysts, fund managers, and bankers. Ironically, Santiso points out, while some emerging markets have decoupled politics and finance, in the wake of the 2008-2012 financial crisis many developed economies (Europe and the United States) have experienced a recoupling between finance and politics. 84 b&w illus.; 168 Illustrations, unspecified
Javier Santiso is Professor of Economics at ESADE Business School, Spain, and Vice President of the ESADE Center for the Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo). Previously he was the Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) and Chief Development Economist and Director General of the OECD Development Centre. He studied in Paris at Sciences Po, at Oxford University, and at Harvard University, and he holds an MBA and a PhD. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is the author of Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (MIT Press, 2006).
  • Contributor: Javier Santiso
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • ISBN13: 9780262019002
  • Number of Pages: 352
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x22mm
  • Packaged Weight: 612
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Release Date: 2013-06-14
  • Series: The MIT Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Javier Santiso is Professor of Economics at ESADE Business School, Spain, and Vice President of the ESADE Center for the Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo). Previously he was the Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) and Chief Development Economist and Director General of the OECD Development Centre. He studied in Paris at Sciences Po, at Oxford University, and at Harvard University, and he holds an MBA and a PhD. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is the author of Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (MIT Press, 2006).

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