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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2015
In this article I examine the history of the Mexican Stock Exchange from the end of the Revolution until 1975, under the hypothesis that it did not carry out its pertinent functions in corporate financing but was rather an economic and political instrument of the government. Due to state intervention and the deficient definition of property rights, its functioning was completely anomalous except during this period. The article represents a first step in the study of the role of the stock exchange in Latin American corporatist economic models.
En este artículo examino la historia de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores desde el fin de la Revolución a 1975 bajo la hipótesis de que, en lugar de actuar como un intermediario financiero al uso, ha sido un instrumento político y económico del Gobierno. Debido a la intervención estatal y a la deficiente definición de los derechos de propiedad, su funcionamiento fue completamente anómalo. En suma, el artículo constituye un primer paso en el estudio del papel de la Bolsa en los modelos económicos corporativistas latinoamericanos.
This research into the Mexican Stock Exchange was carried out thanks to financial support obtained from the Ministerio Español de Economìa (Project HAR 2013-41121-P) and the Fundación Española de Cajas de Ahorro (FUNCAS). In fact, this article was edited, in a preliminary version, as a working paper by this last institution (number 476, 2014). The author is also grateful to Mara Eugenia Romero Iberra, Gustavo del Ángel, Francisco Comín and many other Mexican and Spanish colleagues who helped him in this research. The author presents in this article a much more sophisticated and rigorous study thanks to the referees’ suggestions.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas, Avenida Valle de Esgueva 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain. Jmoreno@eco.uva.es