Hardie investigates the link between the financialization - defined as the ability to trade risk - and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets. He considers the government bond markets in Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey and includes interviews with 126 financial market actors.

Introduction Domestic Commercial Banks Domestic Individual Investors Domestic Institutional Investors International Investors Conclusion

IAIN HARDIE Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has previously worked in investment banking in London and Hong Kong. He has published in a variety of journals, including Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Economy, Economy and Society and The Sociological Review.