This article examines the costs of banking pollution and the role of regulation and restrictions on the financial system in tackling it. It studies the benefits of such restrictions in terms of modularity, robustness and incentives, and the costs in terms of the economies of scale and the...

This article analyzes the causes of U.S. mortgage backed securities crisis, a crucial market in the financial panic of 2008. It shows that irrational behavior of investors is not infrequent, as evidenced by Ponzi schemes and bubbles. A comparison is made between traditional and new models of...

The current financial crisis, hitting the very nucleus of capitalist metropolis and placing its roots and causes at the spheres (financial and commercial ones) that have been privileged by neo-liberals, is another sample of the scarce or nonexistent viability of neo-liberal projects, having in...

This study aims to analyze the Spanish financial entities that were bailout by the European Union with the main objective to discern the different char- acteristics among them and find out the reasons why in some cases some of them were merged, in other were taken over and in the most...