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Sovereign debt management and the globalization of finance : recasting the City of London’s ‘Big Bang’

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Dutta, Sahil Jai (2018) Sovereign debt management and the globalization of finance : recasting the City of London’s ‘Big Bang’. Competition & Change, 22 (1). pp. 3-22. doi:10.1177/1024529417734524

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Abstract

This article focuses on the central position of sovereign debt securities in the financial system to challenge existing accounts about the 1986 ‘Big Bang’ deregulation of the City of London’s securities market. The reforms are often cast as an iconic moment of neoliberal deregulation and a key episode in the globalization of financial markets. Such accounts stress that the state played an active role in constructing the reforms and upholding the global market relations they produced, yet they remain unclear about the state’s direct interest in pursuing financial market liberalization. The article contends that domestic concerns over sovereign debt management were central to the state’s pursuit of regulatory change. The Big Bang reforms greatly expanded the size and liquidity of the market for British sovereign debt. This empowered the state, improving its capacity to conduct monetary policy and to raise finance on better terms. In doing so, the article demonstrates the necessity of examining sovereign debt management in order to specify the state’s role in the construction of financial globalization.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Debts, Public -- History -- Great Britain -- 20th century, Monetary policy, Bank of England, Neoliberalism, Globalization
Journal or Publication Title: Competition & Change
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
ISSN: 1024-5294
Official Date: 1 February 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
1 February 2018Published
24 October 2017Available
5 September 2017Accepted
Volume: 22
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 3-22
DOI: 10.1177/1024529417734524
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: University of Sussex. Doctoral Studentship
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