Summary - TST 40
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Andrés REGALSKY y Mariano IGLESIAS
Globalizing from the periphery, between the local market and the European squares: the experience of internationalization of two Argentine banks, 1880-1930
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Key Words: Banking, Argentina,
Globalization, Internationalization.
[ Abstract ]
This paper analyzes the process of economic and financial
integration in the world market of two Argentine banks between
1880 and 1930: the French Bank of the Rio de la Plata and the
Spanish Bank of the Rio de la Plata. This process was, maybe,
the most successful in Latin America. The growth of the banks
was based on the massive influx of foreign capital and foreign
labor, both of mostly European origin. The text analyzes the
differentiated trajectory of each entity, with particular
attention to the problematic situation imposed by the First
World War.