First paragraph: In a paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Brazilian Society for Political Economy, in June 2003, Victoria Chick (2004: 3) wrote: »There are many pleasures attached to being in Brazil, but one of the chief intellectual pleasures is that Brazil is still a centre of...

This paper aims at analysing the determinants of the recent wave of European banks to Brazil in the context of the recent phase of banking internationalisation. The first part analyses the process of banking internationalisation from both an analytical and an historical approach. Focusing on the...

This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between capital account liberalization,economic performance and macroeconomic stability in Brazil. For this purpose,besides a revision in the literature, the paper develops an empirical study on the effects of financial liberalization in Brazil on a...

This paper aims at analysing the determinants of the recent wave of European banks to Brazil under the context of the recent phase of banking internationalisation. In its first part, it analyses the process of banking internationalisation from both analytical and historical approach. Focusing on...

This paper seeks to fill a gap in the literature on frontier market economies (FMEs) with the following two research questions: (i) Which are the drivers of FMEs' integration into financial globalisation? (ii) What explains the greater vulnerability of FMEs compared to emerging market economies...

In this paper, we develop a Keynesian–structuralist perspective on the origins and implications of the currency hierarchy in the international monetary and financial system. We show that international asymmetry in monetary affairs results in structural implications for peripheral economies....

This paper examines the Brazilian economy during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic policies implemented in 2020 to address the economic and social crisis. Using primary and secondary sources, the article differs in its analysis from other heterodox approaches according to which state action...

How has financial globalization changed the nature of the external vulnerability of emerging economies? The authors first present an overview of the changes in international capital flows and cross-border stocks involving emerging economies from the 1970s to the COVID-19 crisis, and then...