Mexico; financial fragility or structural crisis?

The systemic weaknesses of the privatized banking sector were a determining factor in the 1994-1995 crises. Rapacious elite drove the acquisition of loans to finance conspicuous consumption and speculative activities. The privileged knowledge of certain groups regarding this weakness influenced capi...

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Autor: Cypher, James
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28946
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/28946
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Inestabilidad crediticia
fragilidad financiara
devaluación
crisis bancaria
Fobaproa
reprivatización
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Sumario:The systemic weaknesses of the privatized banking sector were a determining factor in the 1994-1995 crises. Rapacious elite drove the acquisition of loans to finance conspicuous consumption and speculative activities. The privileged knowledge of certain groups regarding this weakness influenced capital flight in 1994, forcing a devaluation of the peso. The government, maintaining its free-market policy, implemented a massive bank rescue plant which cost more than the income yielded by the privatization of the bank in 1991-1992. By 1996, the government had re-nationalized half the privatized banks