Victor C. Shih

Factions and Finance in China

Elite Conflict and Inflation

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Produktbeschreibung

Shih develops a framework with which to analyze the impact of elite politics on both monetary and banking policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521106474
• ISBN-10: 0521106478
• Artikelnr.: 26106179

Autorenporträt

Victor C. Shih is a political economist specializing in China at Northwestern University. Born in Hong Kong, Professor Shih immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He attended the George Washington University on a University Presidential Fellowship and graduated summa cum laude in East Asian Studies with a minor in Economics. He went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including The China Quarterly and The Far Eastern Economic Review, and advises the private sector on the banking industry in China. His current research concerns the political economy of fiscal transfers in China and Chinese policies toward ethnic minorities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. China's financial performance in comparative perspective
3. The banking system: flexible institutions and party domination
4. Factional politics and its financial implications
5. Factional politics, distribution of loans, and inflationary cycles: several quantitative tests
6. The collapse of discipline: the first two inflationary cycles and the fiscalization of Chinese banks
7. The height of the politics of inflation, 1986-1996
8. The long cycle: 1998-2006
9. Concluding discussion.