Carlos Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes

Carlos Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes
  • PhD Economics
  • Professor (Associate) at University of La Laguna

About

41
Publications
10,241
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
438
Citations
Current institution
University of La Laguna
Current position
  • Professor (Associate)
Additional affiliations
September 1990 - June 2019
University of La Laguna
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
June 2006 - February 2013
University of La Laguna
Position
  • Dean of Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
December 1999 - February 2001
University of La Laguna
Position
  • Head of Department

Publications

Publications (41)
Article
The term financialisation gained prominence to describe the increasing role of finance, particularly since the 2008 financial crisis. However, a common critique is the lack of consensus on its definition. Some works suggest that these discrepancies are the result of the changing nature of economic reality, while others highlight the distinct resear...
Article
Full-text available
This paper provides a theoretical account of the role of regional differences in cyclical patterns of credit availability for patterns of regional convergence or divergence. While mainstream theories imply either equalising regional capital flows, or else lower credit availability for peripheral regions due to market imperfections, Post-Keynesian t...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This paper aims at offering a critical assessment of the performance of the ECB monetary policy strategy, as well as of the substantial " de facto " changes it has experienced from 2010 onwards, as a consequence of the unforeseen challenges that the Eurozone's crisis has brought in its implicit conventional monetary model of the " two pillars ". Th...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This papers offers a personal interpretation of Victoria Chick monetary thought which is heavily drawn on the analysis of two basic principles that have been always present in her writings: (i) the notion that the monetary change is only “one half of the story” in our comprehension of the way the economic system really works, and that (ii) the deve...
Article
Full-text available
La interminable crisis bancaria ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia de la banca para el crecimiento económico. Mientras que el banco como creador de dinero es indispensable para el funcionamiento de la economía, el banco como prestamista de la empresa productiva es nece-sario para la actividad económica. Un pilar del debate político internaciona...
Article
Full-text available
En este trabajo se ofrece una síntesis de los estudios que se han interesado por las repercusiones regionales derivadas del funcionamiento del sistema bancario, incluyendo las contribuciones más recientes que se han ocupado del estudio de la relación finance-growth. El objetivo final de este análisis es el de resaltar el papel central y no neutral...
Article
Full-text available
El interés por el estudio de los efectos asimétricos que puede tener la política monetaria única (PMU) en los países integrantes de la eurozona ha dado origen a una ingente literatura, fundamentalmente de carácter empírico, que se ha ocupado de analizar las respuestas del output y los precios de los países europeos ante los supuestos shocks monetar...
Article
Full-text available
The title of this issue of Ekonomiaz is «Banking & Regional Growth». It sets out to analyse the influence of the banking system and of monetary policy on regional economic growth, with «regional» understood as referring both to distinct economic areas within a national economy and to sovereign states within supranational economic units. It is well...
Article
Crocco M., Faria-Silva F., Paulo-Rezende L. and Rodríguez-Fuentes C. J. Banks and regional development: an empirical analysis on the determinants of credit availability in Brazilian regions, Regional Studies. This paper studies the influence that liquidity preference and bank lending strategies might have played in the determination of bank credit...
Article
Full-text available
The aim of this paper is to analyze the theoretical limitations of the mainstream’s Works related to the regional impacts of monetary policy. After a general presentation of the conventional framework, followed by the typology proposed in Dow & Rodríguez-Fuentes (1997), we present our arguments based on the Post-Keynesian theory against the traditi...
Article
Full-text available
The aim of this paper is to analyse the presence of sectoral asymmetries in monetary policy transmission in Spain in the period before the introduction of the single monetary policy in Europe (1988-98). Monetary policy shocks are identified through both a standard vector auto-regression model (VAR-shock) and the specification of a reaction function...
Book
With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ways through which money and monetary policy may af...
Article
ABSTRACT Many economists think financial factors play no role in regional development since it is usually assumed that money can only affect the general level of prices but not the real output, that is, money is neutral to the economic process. According to this traditional view, the banking system is neutral to regional development since it simply...
Article
Full-text available
En el presente trabajo se analiza la relación de la causalidad entre diversos agregados monetarios en España con el propósito de contrastar el carácter exógeno o endógeno de la oferta monetaria. Con este fin, y utilizando para ello distintas técnicas proporcionadas por el análisis de series temporales, se estudiará la causalidad estadística entre,...
Article
Full-text available
The primary goal of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) monetary policy is to achieve price stability. Whereas during the 1980s and 1990s there was a rapid and strong convergence in terms of price differential among the Euro countries, particularly in those countries with higher inflation rates in the past, single monetary policy has proved to be qui...
Article
Full-text available
En el presente trabajo se analiza la relación de causalidad entre diversos agregados monetarios en España con el pro-pósito de contrastar el carácter exógeno o endógeno de la oferta monetaria. Con este fin, y utilizando para ello distintas técnicas proporcionadas por el análisis de series temporales, se estudiará la causalidad estadística entre, po...
Article
Full-text available
En la mayoría de los trabajos en (os que se estudian las consecuencias económicas de la moneda única se suele indicar que su introducción conducirás unos mayores niveles de integración de los mercados bancarios europeos. No obstante, los cambios ocurridos en el sector bancario europeo durante los años noventa no parecen corroborar tal apreciación,...
Article
Full-text available
RESUMEN En la mayoría de los trabajos en los que se estudian las consecuencias económicas de la moneda única se suele indicar que su introducción conducirá a unos mayores niveles de integración de los mercados bancarios europeos. No obstante, los cambios ocurridos en el sector bancario europeo durante los años noventa no parecen corroborar tal apr...
Article
Full-text available
In this paper we focus on a topic which has been attracting renewed interest because of monetary unification in Europe: the regional dimension of national monetary policies. Most of the debate over the regional implications of the Eurc, has been developed within the Optimum Currency Area framework. According to this theory, European monetary policy...
Article
Full-text available
La consideración de la literatura financiera regional resulta útil para el análisis de la influencia que puede ejercer el sector financiero en el proceso de convergencia entre las economías de la Unión Europea que forman parte de la zona euro. En este trabajo se analiza esta literatura desde la óptica de la estructura de mercado, distinguiéndose tr...
Article
Many economists think financial factors play no role in regional development since it is usually assumed that money can only affect the general level of prices but not the real output, that is, money is neutral to the economic process. According to this traditional view, the banking system is neutral to regional development since it simply allocate...
Article
Full-text available
Tradicionalmente, el sistema bancario ha sido considerado como un agente neutral en el desarrollo regional por cuanto se ha asumido que su función primordial no es otra que la de distribuir regionalmente el volumen de crédito determinado a nivel nacional. En este trabajo, por el contrario, se sostiene que la función que desempeña el sistema bancari...
Article
Sumario: Dinero y actividad económica. ¿Por qué importa el dinero? -- Una reconsideración sobre el papel y significado del concepto de política monetaria -- El dinero y la economía regional. Una revisión sobre la cuestión del impacto regional de la política monetaria -- Un marco teórico para el análisis del impacto regional de la política monetaria...
Article
Full-text available
The role of money and ® nancial markets in the regional matters. 1 economy has been attracting increasing attention in We start with a review of the treatment of money recent years. It has been a topic of interest for longer in regional economics, and then turn to the much
Article
Full-text available
El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar grupos de Comunidades Autónomas con características económicas dispares que podrían originar un impacto diferencial de una política monetaria común. El propósito último será, pues, identificar a aquellas regiones potencialmente más afectadas por la política monetaria nacional a través de lo que hemos denom...
Article
Full-text available
Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es el de analizar si los efectos regionales de la política monetaria en España dependen de la fase cíclica en la que se encuentre la economía. Para ello hacemos uso de la metodología Markov Switching Model, para caracterizar las fases cíclicas (expansiones y recesiones) de las distintas regiones españolas. Los re...

Network

Cited By