The Long Boom and the Early Bust: The Portuguese Economy in the Era of Financialisation

Barradas, Ricardo; Mamede, Ricardo; Lagoa, Sérgio; Leão, Emanuel

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This chapter expands the authors’ previous work on the Portuguese financial system’s evolutions in the past three decades. In that work they extensively documented the various signs of financialisation in the Portuguese economy. Now the authors focus on the effects of financialisation in Portugal on the long-run macroeconomic development and on the financial and economic crises that hit the country in recent years. The chapter is divided in four main sections. Section 11.2 discuss the main features of the development of the Portuguese economy since the early 1980s. Section 11.3 builds an analysis by looking in greater detail at four different channels through which financialisation affects the evolution do the Portuguese economy: income distribution, investment in capital stock, private consumption and the current account. Section 11.4 addresses the crisis and section 11.5 presents the conclusions.