"Seeks to understand the nature and global impact of the Chinese lending by looking at China's national policy banks -- the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China -- and the financial giants that capitalize China's overseas infrastructure and industrial projects."

Manuela Moschella investigates the institutional transformation of central banks from the 1970s to the present. Central banks are typically regarded as conservative, politically neutral institutions that uphold conventional macroeconomic wisdom. Yet in the wake of the 2008 global financial...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1. The Problem with Tax Treaties -- 2. A History of Lower-Income Countries in (and out of) Global Tax Governance -- 3. The Competition Discourse and North-South Relations -- 4. The International Tax Community and the...

Interactions Between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- Interests, Ideas, Institutions and The Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- Growth Model Reform and the Banks as the State's Cashier, 1979-1996 -- Quick Fix Banking Reforms after the Asian Crisis, 1997-2002 --...

BANKING ON GROWTHMODELS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- 2. Interests, Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- 3. Growth...

The Bankers' Blacklist offers lessons about the peril and power of globalized finance, revealing new insights into how some of today's most pressing international cooperation challenges might be addressed.

Genesis and Exodus : The Tragedy of England's Return to Gold -- The Road to Calvary : From Orthodoxy to Theocracy -- The Cunliffe "Consensus" -- Atop Sinai : More Heat Than Light -- The Golden Calf : The Public Idolize Gold -- Commandments : Defining the Law -- Myths : Theirs and Ours --...

The agencies and what they do -- How to think about the agencies -- The agencies and financial innovation -- Cogs in the wheel of financial destruction -- Aftermath -- Addendum: convenient villains & all-purpose bogeymen -- I'll be gone. You'll be gone.

Local Control and Global Access -- Episode 1 : Dividing the Debris of the Soviet Colossus, 1987-94 -- Episode 2 : The Oligarchs Embrace Openness, 1995-98 -- Episode 3 : State Capitalism Goes Global,1999-2008 -- Coda : Financial Openness as a Mainstay of Kleptocratic Capitalism, 2009-2020 --...

"International taxation rules allow Apple, Starbucks, and Nike to avoid billions of dollars of taxes. News stories have focused on tax dodging in developed countries, but developing countries lose at least $200 billion per year in tax revenue. In the Global South, an international tax regime...