In this work we intend to review from a critical perspective the ‘patrimonial capitalism’ approach, as well as its analysis of wage-labor transformations in developed economies during the last thirty years. For this purpose, we take the economies of France and the United States as study...

This paper studies the relation between firm's financing choices and financial globalization. Using an East Asian and Latin American firm-level panel for the 1980s and 1990s, we study how leverage ratios, debt maturity structure, and sources of financing change when economies are liberalized and...

Purpose – This study examines the complex financial and reporting regulation that will oversee and monitor the veracity of newly commoditised carbon financial products traded in the proposed cap and trade Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), the government’s centrepiece of a...

This Article, a sequel to earlier articles by the author on financial regulation and global finance, retrieves and updates J. M. Keynes’s original International Clearing Union plan for what ultimately became the International Monetary Fund (“IMF,” “Fund”).  Its motives are not...

Este documento ocasional resume los avances recientes en el análisis teórico de las causas de la inestabilidad fi nanciera, de sus consecuencias macroeconómicas, y sus implicaciones acerca del posible papel de la política macroprudencial. En primer lugar, se analiza cómo se propagan las...

This paper focuses on market discipline as a necessary condition to preserve the signaling content of balance sheet indicators and market prices as macroprudential tools. It argues that market discipline enhances the information content of market prices by reflecting the expected private cost of...

Tanto los desequilibrios mundiales como la (des)regulación de los mercados fi nancieros destacan como posibles causas de la crisis fi nanciera mundial. En este documento se investiga la posible relación entre ambos fenómenos ; concretamente, analizamos la relación entra la (des)regulación...