Walter, Andrew (2006) From developmental to regulatory state: Japan's new financial regulatory system. Pacific Review, 19 (4). pp. 405-428. ISSN 0951-2748
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Recent financial reforms in Japan and elsewhere in Asia represent, for various authors, a fundamental shift in financial governance and in state-business relations in the region. The old 'developmental' state in East Asia has supposedly made way for a neoliberal 'regulatory' state, with its emphases on agency independence and the non-discretionary enforcement of rules. I show in this paper that this interpretation exaggerates the extent of the transformation in the important case of Japan. Although the outward institutional forms of economic governance in Japan, as with many Asian developing countries, has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, discretion still remains at the core of economic and financial policy. In the area of Japanese banking regulation and supervision, I show how this highly discretionary application and enforcement has been consistent with domestic political pressures. The result is a substantial divergence between superficial convergence upon international regulatory standards and underlying behaviour. I also give reasons why globalization does not mean that this hybrid regulatory model is unsustainable.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/Journals/titles/09512748.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2008 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 04:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5926 |
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