This article seeks to contribute to the academic debate regarding financialization, through an analysis of its evolution in Mexico. As we argue, Mexico has been at the forefront of the tendencies and historical events that have defined financialization at the global level. Moreover, Mexico is...

This article analyzes the structural reform stages in Latin American countries, the so call Washington Consensus agenda and the behaviour of the foreign investment flows. It was studied the results of the third generation reforms and the changes in the structure of the financial markets, in...

This paper argues that a fundamental aspect of the process of financialization is the transformation and evolution of certain key institutions. In national spaces, these include those that play essential roles in financing economic activity, such as the central bank and the commercial banking...

With high debt levels both in pesos and dollars, several large Mexican economic enterprises, were surprised by the December 1994 peso devaluation. Local banks had taken important positions in foreign currency, increasing their short-term debt mainly with foreign brokers. The abrupt peso...

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 preponderance of evidence suggests that denser and more connected communities with a higher degree of mixed land uses results in fewer vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT). However, there is less agreement as the size of the effect. Also, there is no clear understanding as to the aspects of...

This paper analyzes a seldom discussed aspect of Argentina's banking crisis of 2001-2002: the conflict that arose between foreign banks and the national government over the economic policies applied in response to the banking crisis. In particular, the paper will examine the foreign banks'...