The regionalization of bank credit in Brazil

• Grant number: 12/11023-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Wanderley Messias da Costa
• Grantee: Clarisse Coutinho Ribeiro
• Supervisor: Johannes Glückler
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Heidelberg University, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/05703-4 - The Relationship between Territorial Expansion of Bank Credit and Interregional Economic Inequality in Contemporary Brazil (2000-2010), BP.DR

Abstract

The research proposal aims to analyse the formation of the regionalisation of banking credit in Brasil between 2000 and 2010. The key research hypothesis we want to address is that relational territory is not neutral with respect to the regionalisation of finances. This is a justified research question as accelerated growth of banking credits in the last decade resulted in a new regionalisation of finances which had a strong impact on national development. The methodology of this thesis employs both theoretical and empirical analysis in answering the central hypothesis. The theoretical approach is based on three complementary pillars in the study of regional finances: Post-Keynesian theory, rational economic geography and renovation cartography. The empirical approach uses a statistical analysis on basis of multiple regressions, cartographic elaboration and graphical modelling. This union of these different methodologies, we believe, is most appropriate to perform the interdisciplinary analysis to answer the central research hypothesis. (AU)