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The reregulation of capital flows in Latin America: assessing the impact of post-neoliberal governments
Title / Series / Name
Review of International Political Economy
Publication Volume
29
Publication Issue
5
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13853
Abstract
This article assesses the impact of post-neoliberal governments on the level of capital controls in 17 Latin American countries for the period between 1995 and 2017. Contrary to administrations led by other left-of-center parties, especially the ones affiliated to the Socialist International, I contend that post-neoliberal parties, affiliated to the S~ao Paulo Forum, opted to reregulate capital flows for three main reasons: increasing macroeconomic policy autonomy, favoring their constituencies, and/or giving concreteness to the rhetoric against financial and foreign interests. After proposing a new capital controls index and estimating a time-series cross-section model, I find that post-neoliberalism has been associated with an increase in the level of controls. Besides this main conclusion, I also find that larger financial sectors contribute to counteracting the reregulation of capital flows by post-neoliberal governments.
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Journal article
Date
2022
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10.1080/09692290.2021.1927140