Explores the factors driving the international expansion of Mexican commercial banks, as well as its repercussions for the health and condition of the domestic banking system

Reconstructs the mechanism employed by the banks to intermediate foreign liquidity with final borrowers, and examine the risks and vulnerabilities they created in doing so Analyses the impact of the exposure of the domestic banking system to the 1982 debt crisis and, specifically, how the banks' situation affected the renegotiating position of Mexican officials with their international creditors

Autorentext
Sebastian Alvarez is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the History Faculty of the University of Oxford, UK, and Associate Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, UK. His research focuses on sovereign debt, international banking and financial crises during the decade leading to the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s. He has been awarded the 'Prix de la Relève 2016' by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) and a number of fellowships by the SNSF, the European Commission and the French government. He holds a PhD in Economic and Social History from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a MA in Public Economics from the University of Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne, France, and a BA in Economics from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Euromarkets and Debt Crisis.- Chapter 2. Mexican Banks Go Abroad.- Chapter 3. Deeper into Foreign Finance.- Chapter 4. The Condition of Mexican Banking.- Chapter 5. International Business Risks.- Chapter 6. Banks and Debt Negotiations.- Conclusion.