A fundamental issue in undertaking capital account liberalization is how to reap the benefits from capital market access while coping safely with the risks associated with international capital flows.

Discover how country liberalization boosts investment opportunities, promotes stock market growth, and reduces political risk in emerging markets.

Four securities industry associations have joined forces in calling for the liberalization of trade in financial services and providing a roadmap to achieve that goal. The four trade groups, the ...

Increasingly urgent discussions over mergers and acquisitions have moved from the boardrooms of commercial banks to the most ...

Ever since China began opening up to the outside world, the right of foreign-invested enterprises ("FIEs") to make equity investments within the People's Republic of China (which for these purposes ...

It is essential for Kuwait’s CMA to closely study Saudi Arabia’s pioneering move and seek to emulate it by accelerating ...

China maintains tight controls over its capital account. Its current policy regime also features financial repression, under which banks are required to extend funds to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) ...

Abdelal, Rawi. "Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization." Review of International Political Economy 13, no. 1 (February 2006): 1–27.

When members of Ethiopia’s banking and business community gathered in the glitzy Sheraton Addis for an audience with the reform-minded new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, in the middle of April, any hopes ...

A decision of liberalization of the capital movement will be adopted depending on the situation, the head of the National Bank (NBA), Elman Rustamov told, noting that the most optimal model allowing ...

We study the consequences of interest-rate liberalization in a two-sector general equilibrium model of China. The model captures a key feature of China’s distorted financial system: state-owned ...

A fundamental issue in undertaking capital account liberalization is how to reap the benefits from capital market access while coping safely with the risks associated with international capital flows.