This paper develops a simple structuralist model to deal with the relationships between inflation and external adjustment policies in foreign-indebted economies facing strong reversals in capital inflows. Taking Latin American experiences in the eighties as a reference, the model attempts to...

This review-paper deals with different factors that have an effect on location decisions made by financial institutions. Emphasis is given to those factors that are specific to the financial sector and not applicable to economic activity in general.

This paper focuses on the geographic distribution of banking activity in Brazil, with the objective of building several quantitative indicators of said spatial distribution. In addition, it puts forward some conjectures regarding the nature and intensity of the changes in the geographic...