The aim of this piece is to analyze some territorial determinants to the total amount of credit in a specific region. These determinants are derived from the economics conditions of the region and are observed through the liquidity preference of banks and public. Accordingly to the Post...

The aim of this piece is to analyse, based on the post-keynesian framework, the relationship between the centrality and dynamism of regions and the behaviour of some regional financial variables at Brazil from 1988 to 2000, which is a period of different levels of macroeconomic uncertainty. The...

Este artigo aborda duas vertentes de política econômica orientadas ao desenvolvimento do sistema de mobilização de capitais, via crédito, no período da industrialização restringida: a modernização da regulação bancária e a configuração de um canal de oferta direta de crédito de...

Local money systems: an investigation towards its potentialities based on the study of the Banco Bem in Vitória, Brazil - The aim of this paper is to investigate towards a relatively unexplored area: the Local Money Systems (LMS), that are, in short, an agreement amongst the population of a...

This study contributes to the understanding of the causality between different credit measures and indicators of economic activity in the State of São Paulo. Questions have been raised as to the prevailing Granger-causality for national economies, and a regional approach that has not yet been...

The aim of this piece is to identify the variables that explain the locational decision of a retail bank. The paper’s motivation is the acknowledgment of the necessity of to retake the discussion about the role of money, financial system and monetary policy on the development of regions, due...

The aim of this paper is to study the access to bank services and the public liquidity preference in Minas Gerais. The theoretical approach will be post-keynesian, which suggests that in peripherical regions the liquidity preference would be higher, due to the uncertainty. This situation leads...

This paper tests and find evidence that support the view that credit interest rates respond more to increases than to decreases in the Central Bank basic interest rate (Selic). This asymmetry is robust to an event analysis, in which the availability of a dataset containing daily information is...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar como o processo de consolidação bancária brasileiro, a partir da implementação do Plano Real, impactou a distribuição e concessão do crédito regionalmente. A partir da análise de dados estatísticos e da utilização da análise de dados em painel,...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a interação entre as esferas financeira e produtiva. Foram discutidas as características do Sistema Financeiro Brasileiro e examinada a evolução do financiamento bancário da atividade industrial por região. Buscou-se ainda ressaltar a importância da...