The rapid growth of the private pension funds industry has potential quantitative and qualitative effects for the capital markets, especially for the emerging markets. There are several factors that influence the decision to invest on the emerging markets and, in the case the decision to invest...

The globalization improves the prospects for the emerging markets to attain an economic development level comparable with that of industrialized countries. Without ignoring the specific policies concerning the openness degree, globalization might increase capital and technology flows towards...