This article explores how the structural arrangements under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have contributed to the unfolding of the financial crisis and to its international transmission. It reviews the developments over the last two decades in Canada and Mexico based on the...

During the last decades, Latin American economies have liberalized their capital accounts and their domestic capital markets and banking-financial sectors to accelerate economic growth. It was taken for granted that Latin American countries suffered from a deep scarcity of capital and an...

This article analyzes the structural reform stages in Latin American countries, the so call Washington Consensus agenda and the behaviour of the foreign investment flows. It was studied the results of the third generation reforms and the changes in the structure of the financial markets, in...