The Relationship Between Globalization and State Capitalism - Trade Liberalization, Financial Repression and Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: Trade and Democracy: Does the Nature of the Political System Influence Trade Policy?

Brief Overview

I argue that globalization gives autocrats incentives to increase state control of the economy through financial repression. I show that conditional on a country being an autocracy, trade openness may increase the level of financial repression.

Author

• Russell Cui, Independent Scholar