Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World

by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

In Globalizing in Hard Times, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz examines the sudden and substantial increase in cross-border ownership of commercial banks in countries where bank ownership had long been restricted by local rules. Many parties--the World Bank and the IMF, the world's largest commercial banks, their home governments, and their negotiators--had been pushing for a relaxation of ownership rules since the early 1980s and into the 1990s,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447550
• ISBN13: 9780801447556
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher