Content Type: Special Report / Publishing Institution: Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) / Political Geography: Brazil / Publication Year: within 25 Years / Topic: Financial Markets

Author:: Virgílio Gibbon
Publication Date:: 10-2015
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:: Situational crises tend to concentrate economic activity in centers where such activity already is historically more significant. As a result, financial markets — especially the organized markets — tend to coalesce around these same centers because they benefit from the higher level of liquidity that concentrated economic activity offers. This undoubtedly was one of the major causes of the waning of the financial market in Rio de Janeiro, and the hegemony conquered by São Paulo as of the 1980s.
Topic:: International Political Economy, International Trade and Finance, Financial Crisis, and Financial Markets
Political Geography:: Brazil

Author:: Claudio Contador
Publication Date:: 07-2014
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:: The opening of the reinsurance market in Brazil finally took place in 2007, amidst euphoria and great expectations. The process lasted nearly two decades, with little movement, to the great frustration of the companies, international investors and, especially, the domestic insurance market, which was in need of modernization and less government involvement. The exhaustion of the nationalized reinsurance model created in 1939 was evident by the 1990s and became even more visible in that decade, in the face of opportunities for insurance offered by the large investments in infrastructure, and rural, environmental and disaster insurance, among others.
Topic:: International Trade and Finance, Global Markets, Financial Markets, and Global Political Economy
Political Geography:: Brazil and Global Focus

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