John Wiley & Sons Inc., global publisher of print and electronic
products, specializing in scientific, technical, medical and scholarly
journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services
released ‘Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock
Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism’.
This new book by American born, Beijing-based author consultant Robert
Koepp suggests a new way to look at key aspects of China’s rise,
present-day workings, and future prospects in the global economy through
examination of Chinese stock listings in the United States.
The world is betting that China will continue as a major engine of
growth for the global economy. A crucial but poorly understood topic is
how U.S. stock markets are providing the most liquid and broadly
rewarding conduit for placing the high-stakes wagers on China’s
development and direction. The author elaborates the complex and often
controversial aspects of Chinese stock issuances in America, using both
market trend data and company-specific case studies to provide
substantiated, practical, and revealing perspectives on the
characteristics of the dynamics at play.
“The wagers riding on this new dynamic in global capitalism are not just
about money,” says the author, “the dynamism that propels all the
betting is about ‘a new way of looking at China’ and providing ‘a
new way for China to look at the world’.”
From the watershed mega IPO of China Mobile on the New York Stock
Exchange in 1997, to the near breakdown of the U.S.-China equity
exchange relationship brought about by recent high-profile failures of
Chinese issuances under a swarming of short seller attacks, ‘Betting
on China’ offers refreshing insights through its multifaceted
explorations, providing a window into China’s role as a dominant but
still modernizing economic superpower.
Combining an insider's eye with an outsider's objectivity, Robert Koepp
examines the multidimensional contexts of the reasons and the means by
which China, America, and the global economy reap enormous gains from
the process of Chinese companies issuing equity shares on U.S. stock
markets.
This book looks into the real stories behind why and how China-based
enterprises develop as public companies listed in the United States—and
why government regulations need to work in support of and not against
this force of market nature.
About the Author:
Rob Koepp is an American writer, consultant, and business
executive with an eclectic background in finance, economics, technology,
and the liberal arts. Dividing his time between the U.S., Europe, and
Asia throughout his education and career, Rob began full-time work after
college as an itinerant researcher on a Watson Fellowship that studied
the evolution of Chinese-based calligraphies in countries throughout
East Asia.
Fluent in Chinese and Japanese, Rob started regularly working in
Mainland China as a World Bank-sponsored researcher advising the Chinese
government on technology-based regional development. He subsequently
served in such corporate positions as the managing director at a
Sino-foreign joint venture of the CITIC Group, China’s largest financial
conglomerate. A graduate of Pomona College and Cambridge University, he
currently resides in Beijing where he works in financial consulting.
Koepp is the author of ‘Clusters of Creativity: Enduring
Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and
Europe's Silicon Fen’ and the translator of a bestselling Japanese
illustrated biography of George Soros, both published by Wiley.
‘Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the
Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism’
by Robert Koepp
Published by Wiley; April 2012; ISBN: 978-1-118-08714-5; 256 pages;
Now available in Hardcover and e-book formats; US$39.95
For more information, please visit: www.wiley.com/buy/9781118087145
