The phenomenon of the global imbalances is one of the causes of the current financial and economic crisis. The financial flows associated to these imbalances are in the origin of the generalized crisis in the international financial markets, which are incapable to absorb efficiently these huge...

Introduction

During the last decades, Latin American economies have liberalized their capital accounts and their domestic capital markets and banking-financial sectors to accelerate economic growth. It was taken for granted that Latin American countries suffered from a deep scarcity of capital and an...

The current financial crisis has called the role of the monetary policy into question and has also re-opened the debates about a new regulation and the need of prudential controls of banking activity. This paper argues that the origins of the current crisis can be found in two interrelated...

The current financial crisis has called the role of the monetary policy into question and has also re-opened the debates about a new regulation and the need of prudential controls of banking activity. This paper argues that the origins of the current crisis can be found in two interrelated...