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

In: Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens

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  • John Christensen
  • Mark P. Hampton

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Over the past thirty years a large number of micro-states2 and small island economies (SIEs) around the world have attracted offshore finance and tax haven activity. Their low levels of effective taxation, minimal regulatory regimes and bank secrecy made these offshore finance centres (OFCs) highly attractive to global financial capitalism. The uneven nature of the relationship between the transnational financial institutions operating offshore and their SIE hosts results in the latter competing to accommodate their fiscal and regulatory structures to the interests of financial capital.

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  • John Christensen & Mark P. Hampton, 1999. "A Legislature for Hire: The Capture of the State in Jersey’s Offshore Finance Centre," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mark P. Hampton & Jason P. Abbott (ed.), Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens, chapter 7, pages 166-191, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14752-6_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14752-6_7
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    1. Hampton, Mark P. & Christensen, John, 2002. "Offshore Pariahs? Small Island Economies, Tax Havens, and the Re-configuration of Global Finance," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 30(9), pages 1657-1673, September.
    2. John Christensen & Mark Hampton, 2005. "Exploring the relationship between tourism and offshore finance in small island economies: lessons from Jersey," International Finance 0507006, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Baldacchino, Godfrey, 2006. "Innovative development strategies from Non-Sovereign Island jurisdictions? A global review of economic policy and governance practices," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(5), pages 852-867, May.

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