Abstract
This article treats financial openness as a practical dimension on which two countries can negotiate for capital mobility benefit sharing. A capital-exporting country has some first-mover advantage in bargaining with its importing counterparts for their opening. Yet the former country's impatience can act against its own interests when faced with the latter's reluctance to fully liberalize financial systems. Hence it may be unwise to push them into prematurely opening up their capital markets.
Acknowledgement
This article is based on a research project (RG002/09-10S/GXH/FBA) funded by the University of Macau.