This review-paper deals with different factors that have an effect on location decisions made by financial institutions. Emphasis is given to those factors that are specific to the financial sector and not applicable to economic activity in general.

This paper explores the effects of trade credit by assessing its macroeconomic impacts on several dimensions. To that end, we develop an agent-based model (ABM) with two types of firms: downstream firms, which produce a final good for consumption purposes using intermediate goods, and upstream...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a convergência no crescimento entre os Estados brasileiros no período 1988-2001. Além das variáveis tradicionalmente utilizadas em estudos de convergência estadual, foram incluídos indicadores de credito, o que configura a inovação deste artigo. Os...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the convergence in the growth rates among Brazilian States in the period 1988-2001. In addition to the traditional variables used in the studies about convergence, Brazilian States credit indicators were included, which is the very innovation of this study....

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a further understanding of the impact of monetary policy shocks on a financial network, which we dub the “financial network channel of monetary policy transmission”. To this aim, we develop an agent-based model (ABM) in which banks extend loans...