The aim of this piece is to identify the variables that explain the locational decision of a retail bank. The paper … directed related with the issue of the locational decision of a retail bank have been found in the literature. So, with the … spatial distribution of bank branches in Brazil are made. The result of the research shows that the general level of nominal …

the free banking system to a hierarchical and centralized system in the Central Bank; the transformation of Clearing … Houses in Central Banks, and finally, the processes by which governmental banks were assuming Central Bank’s functions and …