Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Rise (and Fall?) of Offshore Finance in the Global Economy: Editors’ Introduction

   • Mark P. Hampton, Jason P. Abbott

   Pages 1-17

3. Offshore and the Structural Enablement of Sovereignty

   • Ronen Palan

   Pages 18-42

4. Offshore: The State as Legal Fiction

   • Sol Picciotto

   Pages 43-79

5. International Banking and Offshore Finance: London and the Major Centres

   • Mervyn K. Lewis

   Pages 80-116

6. Confidence Men: Offshore Finance and Citizenship

   • Susan M. Roberts

   Pages 117-139

7. The Malta Financial Services Centre: A Study in Micro-State Dependency Management?

   • David Fabri, Godfrey Baldacchino

   Pages 140-165

8. A Legislature for Hire: The Capture of the State in Jersey’s Offshore Finance Centre

   • John Christensen, Mark P. Hampton

   Pages 166-191

9. Mahathir, Malaysia and the Labuan International Offshore Financial Centre: Treasure Island, Pet Project or Ghost Town?

   • Jason P. Abbott

   Pages 192-211

10. Financial Regulation and Supervision Offshore: Guernsey, a Case Study

    • Christopher M. Le Marchant

    Pages 212-229

11. Offshore Finance in Southern Africa

    • Paul Styger, Shyamsunder H. Jhurani, Esi Schimming-Chase

    Pages 230-247

12. Back Matter

    Pages 249-262

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Offshore finance has transformed many small jurisdictions into high income economies and has facilitated the growth of global financial markets, deregulation and the convergence of economic policies worldwide. However, the volatility and fickle nature of global capital has also become apparent. This major new multi-disciplinary and international collection explores the development of offshore finance and is an extremely valuable resource for all those considering the issues involved in this important area.

• economy
• financial markets
• Global economy
• growth
• management
• sovereignty

• Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, UK

  Mark P. Hampton

• Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Jason P. Abbott

MARK P.HAMPTON is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Portsmouth.

JASON P. ABBOTT is a Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at Nottingham-Trent University.

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