Justin Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7484-0112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Learning to ask better questions
This article reports on a starter exercise that trains beginner interview skills without overloading a course with a single project. The exercise is a response to three developments: first, interviewing skills are undertaught in most political science programmes; second, productive elements of online teaching ought to be integrated in campus-based courses; and, third, experiential learning is possible in virtual spaces. Students are exposed to in…
Real time learning during and after the pandemic
During the pandemic, students have been regularly engaged in what I call real time learning through chat and polling exercises. This is an exciting development, but one that also carries the risk of being poorly implemented and not achieving its intended learning outcomes. Four real time teaching methods are presented in this article for consideration by instructors. These methods activate the early stages of the learning process as students enco…
Dear Editor
This study presents a teaching experiment in which students composed a letter to the editor that drew on political economy analysis with an impressive 40 percent publication rate in a major Asian newspaper. In contrast to a purely mock exercise, or the submission of op-ed pieces with a much lower chance of being published, this activity offered students the opportunity to communicate their positions to the community. Instructors must be attuned t…
Global networks on the way up and the way down
Over the last two decades, the Seychelles quietly rose into the top echelon of the global offshore industry and then it experienced a sharp decline. Two different global networks contributed to this outcome. A global advisory network welcomed the Seychelles into its fold before a global banking network that controls access to US dollar transactions constricted its ties with the country. The larger significance is threefold. First, attention must …
Global financial networks confront headwinds
China’s economic ties with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) exemplified global finance beyond national borders in the post-cold war period. This relationship now serves as an example of global finance’s more tenuous foundations as social and political forces coalesce against the offshore economy. The article establishes the defining conflict as the tension between national/global regulations and an Asian-headquartered network that coordinates off…
India’s offshore pivot
A relatively unknown yet significant relationship in the global political economy – Mauritius serving as an offshore financial centre to India – has recently been challenged by the Indian government. This development raises questions about the extent to which the global offshore system has changed. The article presents the argument that India is taking more concerted steps on global taxation reform than most economies, bolstered by a strengthened…
Replica localization in East Asia
Hedge funds exemplify complex finance in the global economy and are appearing in diverse national settings. One question that follows is whether hedge funds in the Asian region have been localized and exhibit significant differences to their US/UK counterparts or whether there is predominantly one global model. The analysis here point to the importance of what is called replica localization, wherein local control has entailed little deviation fro…
Emergent new finance
Hedge funds and private equity funds are two of the most discussed features of contemporary global finance. This article explores the extent to which these new financial forms have arisen outside of the US and a small number of other advanced financial markets. There has been greater experimentation with global finance in emerging markets than is often acknowledged and domestic resistance to Anglo-Saxon business processes has not derailed the spr…
On the National Production of Global Elites
A small but dominant group of global financial elites has been trained in France. These elites hold powerful positions in the global derivatives industry, most prominently in the field of equity derivatives. The specialized French role is both a cause and a consequence of the intensifying use of derivatives, one of the major developments in global financial capitalism. Equity derivatives have spread from France to Europe, and now to Asia, with Lo…
Financial Returnees as New Agents in East Asia
Although the standing of Anglo-American capitalism has been badly damaged by the global economic crisis, the return of the state in emerging markets is by no means assured. Over the past decade, financial processes originating in Anglo-American markets, such as derivatives, hedge funds and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), have made quiet headway in emerging markets. One of the transmission channels is financial returnees, defined as elites returni…
New capitalist processes, interdependence and the Asia–US private equity relationship
Private equity has had a short but eventful history in East Asia, characterized first by US firm dominance and then by a nationalistic backlash. This article charts these earlier patterns, but argues that significant developments have taken place since the early 2000s, which have strengthened the position of private equity capital in the Asian political economy. As private equity deal-making has returned to Asia, new linkages have been formed bet…
Private Equity and Asian Political Economy
Private equity funds, particularly those headquartered in the U.S., have come under heavy attack internationally from civil society and regulators. At the same time, locally owned private equity funds have unexpectedly appeared in significant numbers across emerging markets. The analysis in this paper illustrates how actors that are only notionally domestic are introducing the neoliberal private equity model into Asian countries, particularly Chi…
Private Equity Funds
Reconsidering American interests in emerging market crises
Foreign commercial and economic behaviour in emerging markets continues to be a contentious issue. This article reconsiders the claim that US actors leverage their influence at times of economic crisis to pry open developing markets to American business ownership. On the basis of a number of theoretical propositions and evidence from Korea and Thailand, the article argues that American government agencies and firms took several different directio…
Financial Returnees as New Agents in East Asia
Although the standing of Anglo-American capitalism has been badly damaged by the global economic crisis, the return of the state in emerging markets is by no means assured. Over the past decade, financial processes originating in Anglo-American markets, such as derivatives, hedge funds and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), have made quiet headway in emerging markets. One of the transmission channels is financial returnees, defined as elites returni…
Global financial networks confront headwinds
China’s economic ties with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) exemplified global finance beyond national borders in the post-cold war period. This relationship now serves as an example of global finance’s more tenuous foundations as social and political forces coalesce against the offshore economy. The article establishes the defining conflict as the tension between national/global regulations and an Asian-headquartered network that coordinates off…
Reconsidering American interests in emerging market crises
Foreign commercial and economic behaviour in emerging markets continues to be a contentious issue. This article reconsiders the claim that US actors leverage their influence at times of economic crisis to pry open developing markets to American business ownership. On the basis of a number of theoretical propositions and evidence from Korea and Thailand, the article argues that American government agencies and firms took several different directio…
Global networks on the way up and the way down
Over the last two decades, the Seychelles quietly rose into the top echelon of the global offshore industry and then it experienced a sharp decline. Two different global networks contributed to this outcome. A global advisory network welcomed the Seychelles into its fold before a global banking network that controls access to US dollar transactions constricted its ties with the country. The larger significance is threefold. First, attention must …
Private Equity Funds
India’s offshore pivot
A relatively unknown yet significant relationship in the global political economy – Mauritius serving as an offshore financial centre to India – has recently been challenged by the Indian government. This development raises questions about the extent to which the global offshore system has changed. The article presents the argument that India is taking more concerted steps on global taxation reform than most economies, bolstered by a strengthened…
On the National Production of Global Elites
A small but dominant group of global financial elites has been trained in France. These elites hold powerful positions in the global derivatives industry, most prominently in the field of equity derivatives. The specialized French role is both a cause and a consequence of the intensifying use of derivatives, one of the major developments in global financial capitalism. Equity derivatives have spread from France to Europe, and now to Asia, with Lo…
Private Equity and Asian Political Economy
Private equity funds, particularly those headquartered in the U.S., have come under heavy attack internationally from civil society and regulators. At the same time, locally owned private equity funds have unexpectedly appeared in significant numbers across emerging markets. The analysis in this paper illustrates how actors that are only notionally domestic are introducing the neoliberal private equity model into Asian countries, particularly Chi…
Reconsidering American interests in emerging market crises
Foreign commercial and economic behaviour in emerging markets continues to be a contentious issue. This article reconsiders the claim that US actors leverage their influence at times of economic crisis to pry open developing markets to American business ownership. On the basis of a number of theoretical propositions and evidence from Korea and Thailand, the article argues that American government agencies and firms took several different directio…
Private Equity Funds
Private Equity and Asian Political Economy
Private equity funds, particularly those headquartered in the U.S., have come under heavy attack internationally from civil society and regulators. At the same time, locally owned private equity funds have unexpectedly appeared in significant numbers across emerging markets. The analysis in this paper illustrates how actors that are only notionally domestic are introducing the neoliberal private equity model into Asian countries, particularly Chi…
Financial Returnees as New Agents in East Asia
Although the standing of Anglo-American capitalism has been badly damaged by the global economic crisis, the return of the state in emerging markets is by no means assured. Over the past decade, financial processes originating in Anglo-American markets, such as derivatives, hedge funds and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), have made quiet headway in emerging markets. One of the transmission channels is financial returnees, defined as elites returni…
New capitalist processes, interdependence and the Asia–US private equity relationship
Private equity has had a short but eventful history in East Asia, characterized first by US firm dominance and then by a nationalistic backlash. This article charts these earlier patterns, but argues that significant developments have taken place since the early 2000s, which have strengthened the position of private equity capital in the Asian political economy. As private equity deal-making has returned to Asia, new linkages have been formed bet…
On the National Production of Global Elites
A small but dominant group of global financial elites has been trained in France. These elites hold powerful positions in the global derivatives industry, most prominently in the field of equity derivatives. The specialized French role is both a cause and a consequence of the intensifying use of derivatives, one of the major developments in global financial capitalism. Equity derivatives have spread from France to Europe, and now to Asia, with Lo…
Emergent new finance
Hedge funds and private equity funds are two of the most discussed features of contemporary global finance. This article explores the extent to which these new financial forms have arisen outside of the US and a small number of other advanced financial markets. There has been greater experimentation with global finance in emerging markets than is often acknowledged and domestic resistance to Anglo-Saxon business processes has not derailed the spr…
Replica localization in East Asia
Hedge funds exemplify complex finance in the global economy and are appearing in diverse national settings. One question that follows is whether hedge funds in the Asian region have been localized and exhibit significant differences to their US/UK counterparts or whether there is predominantly one global model. The analysis here point to the importance of what is called replica localization, wherein local control has entailed little deviation fro…
Global financial networks confront headwinds
China’s economic ties with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) exemplified global finance beyond national borders in the post-cold war period. This relationship now serves as an example of global finance’s more tenuous foundations as social and political forces coalesce against the offshore economy. The article establishes the defining conflict as the tension between national/global regulations and an Asian-headquartered network that coordinates off…
India’s offshore pivot
A relatively unknown yet significant relationship in the global political economy – Mauritius serving as an offshore financial centre to India – has recently been challenged by the Indian government. This development raises questions about the extent to which the global offshore system has changed. The article presents the argument that India is taking more concerted steps on global taxation reform than most economies, bolstered by a strengthened…
Global networks on the way up and the way down
Over the last two decades, the Seychelles quietly rose into the top echelon of the global offshore industry and then it experienced a sharp decline. Two different global networks contributed to this outcome. A global advisory network welcomed the Seychelles into its fold before a global banking network that controls access to US dollar transactions constricted its ties with the country. The larger significance is threefold. First, attention must …
Dear Editor
This study presents a teaching experiment in which students composed a letter to the editor that drew on political economy analysis with an impressive 40 percent publication rate in a major Asian newspaper. In contrast to a purely mock exercise, or the submission of op-ed pieces with a much lower chance of being published, this activity offered students the opportunity to communicate their positions to the community. Instructors must be attuned t…
Real time learning during and after the pandemic
During the pandemic, students have been regularly engaged in what I call real time learning through chat and polling exercises. This is an exciting development, but one that also carries the risk of being poorly implemented and not achieving its intended learning outcomes. Four real time teaching methods are presented in this article for consideration by instructors. These methods activate the early stages of the learning process as students enco…
Learning to ask better questions
This article reports on a starter exercise that trains beginner interview skills without overloading a course with a single project. The exercise is a response to three developments: first, interviewing skills are undertaught in most political science programmes; second, productive elements of online teaching ought to be integrated in campus-based courses; and, third, experiential learning is possible in virtual spaces. Students are exposed to in…
Economics (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Finance (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · State Capitalism and Financial Governance (6 works) · Private equity (5 works) · China (4 works) · Equity (law (4 works) · Financial crisis (4 works) · Financial system (4 works)