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Architecture of Equity Markets: The Abidjan Regional Bourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2003

Kathryn C. Lavelle
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Abstract

Literature on financial market liberalization focuses heavily on state activity in allocating preferential credit. I consider state activity in promoting nascent equity markets by asking why a state would create and promote a market in which the transaction costs are high, the potential rate of return is low, and firms are reluctant to list shares. I examine the case of the West African regional stock exchange and propose that the central bank for the West African Monetary Union created it to mediate the relationship between this region and the world economy. I propose that states and domestic markets act as complements rather than as rivals in some instances of bourse creation. Moreover, bourses in developing economies present a different set of relationships among states, public and private lending authorities, and market participants than their counterparts in more developed financial environments. This illuminates a need for further research in this area.

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International Organization , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001 , pp. 717 - 742
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 2001

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