The on-going banking crisis has demonstrated the significance of banking for economic growth. While banks as creators of money are important for the functioning of the economy, bank lending to productive enterprises is necessary for economic activity. Much of the international policy discussion...

R<sc>odríguez</sc>-F<sc>uentes</sc> C. J. and P<sc>adrón</sc>-M<sc>arrero</sc> D. Industry effects of monetary policy in Spain, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The aim of this paper is to analyse the presence of sectoral asymmetries in monetary policy transmission in Spain in the period before the introduction of the single monetary policy in...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between the financial system and the degree of centrality of the city where it is located. Initially, a unique theoretical discussion is conducted to analyze how the degree of centrality can affect the behavior of a bank in a specific...

This enlightening and significant volume focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a wide range of countries and regions. Covering a variety of growth related topics – from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the...

Reúne artigos de Carlos Antonio Brandão, Clélio Campolina Diniz, Eduardo José Monteiro da Costa, Fabiana Santos, Francisco de Oliveira, Lízia de Figueiredo, Marco Crocco, Maria Abadia da Silva Alves, Mauro Borges Lemos, Pedro Silveira Bandeira, Ricardo Machado Ruiz, Roberto Luís Monte-Mór...

In this paper some elements of Keynes's theory of probability are used to understand the process of diffusion of an innovation. Based on a work done elsewhere (Crocco 1999, 2000), we argue that this process can be viewed as a process of dealing with the collective uncertainty about how to sort a...