[pt] Nesta tese, partimos de uma suspeita inicial: a Educação Superior privada brasileira passou por importantes transformações, adentrando, a partir dos anos 1990, na lógica da mercantilização, convertendo-se em objeto de consumo. Para tanto, fez uso das representações da juventude enquanto categoria social. A partir de meados dos anos 2000, a lógica de consumo se intensifica e a Educação Superior privada passa por um processo de financeirização, que estamos vivendo na atualidade. A partir da publicidade de instituições de Educação Superior, fazendo uso da Análise de Discurso como método de pesquisa, buscamos comprovar esta hipótese, analisada sob um viés semiótico. Assim, escolhemos a juventude dentre diversos outros objetos possíveis como categoria analítica, uma vez que se trata da faixa etária prioritariamente idealizada como público-alvo pela Educação Superior, seja ele público ou privado. Essa mesma juventude serviu como elemento de distinção para a publicidade. Existe uma publicidade anterior a essa estética hegemônica da juventude e uma publicidade que é consequência desse domínio, que começou na segunda metade do século XX e se estende até os dias de hoje. Acreditamos que foi a publicidade, acompanhando transformações mercadológicas, que começou a estimular a competição entre as instituições, a estabelecer padrões de consumo da educação muito próximos aos padrões de consumo de bens e serviços. Como conclusões, identificamos que quanto maior o processo de financeirização, menos a juventude aparece como personagem das peças. Esse desaparecimento da juventude marca uma passagem simbólica entre dois tipos de Ensino Superior. / [en] We started this thesis from an initial suspicion: Brazilian Private Higher Education has undergone important transformations, entering into the logic of commodification and becoming an object of consumption during the 1990s. In order to do so, it made use of representations of youth as a social category. From the mid-2000s, the logic of consumption intensifies and Private Higher Education goes through a process of financialization, which we are experiencing until today. We seek to prove this hypothesis through the examination of Higher Education institutions advertisements from a semiotic approach, using Discourse Analysis as a research method. Thus, among several possible objects, we have chosen youth as our analytical category, since it is the age group primarily idealized by Higher Education, whether public or private, as its target audience. This very same youth served as an element of distinction for advertising. There is a publicity prior to this hegemonic aesthetic of youth and a publicity that is the consequence of this domination, which began in the second half of the twentieth century and extends to the present day. We believe that it was advertising, following market transformations, that began to stimulate competition among institutions to establish education consumption patterns very similar to the patterns of consumption of goods and services. We have drawn conclusions that identified that the greater the process of financialization, the lesser youth appears as a character in the ads. This disappearance of youth indicates a symbolic passage through two types of Higher Education.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Giorgio Romano Schutte / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Humanas e Sociais, São Bernardo do Campo, 2018. / A partir da crise financeira do final da década de 1990, surgiram propostas econômicas "pósneoliberais" no Brasil e na América Latina que colocaram no centro do discurso econômico a retomada do papel do Estado como indutor do crescimento econômico e da distribuição de renda. Foi nesse contexto que esta pesquisa analisou os debates sobre a caracterização do perfil econômico dos governos Lula (2003-2010) e o desempenho e atuação das frações de classe dominantes. Foram abordados temas como desenvolvimento econômico, financeirização, dívida pública, vulnerabilidade externa, política monetária e fiscal de modo a evidenciar de que forma a hegemonia do setor financeiro e a incapacidade política do governo Lula de quebrar esse poder se transformaram em um limite para avançar com políticas de desenvolvimento. Para tanto, foram apresentados dados de desempenho econômico e taxas de rentabilidade e analisadas as frações de classe existentes no bloco no poder. Sob elevadas taxas de juros reais, impediu-se que a dívida pública fosse um instrumento de financiamento do investimento público para tornar-se espaço de alocação de recursos com elevada rentabilidade e baixo risco, desestimulando as atividades produtivas e drenando a riqueza nacional por intermédio de um sistema tributário regressivo. Por meio dos elevados ganhos de rentabilidade e de elementos determinantes da política econômica, identificamos o protagonismo exercido pela fração bancário-financeira no interior do bloco no poder e a consolidação da hegemonia financeira como um decisivo limite estrutural para o desenvolvimento, expansão e aprofundamento da distribuição de renda. / After 1990¿s financial crisis, "post-neoliberal" economic proposals appeared in Brazil and Latin American and focused on the recovery of the role of the State as inductor of economic growth and income distribution. In this context, the present study has analyzed the debates about the characterization of the economic profile of Lula¿s terms (2003-2010) and the performance and operation of dominant classes. Themes such as economic development, financialization, government debt, external vulnerability, monetary and tax policy were discussed to evidence how the hegemony of the financial sector and the political inability of Lula¿s government to break this power have become a limitation to the advance of development policies. For this purpose, we have presented economic performance data and rates of return and analyzed class sectors existing in the ruling block. Under high real interest rates, government debt did not become a tool for financing public investment. Instead it became a target of resource allocation with high profit and low risk, discouraging productive areas and draining national wealth through a regressive tax system. By means of high profitability and determining elements of the economic policy we have identified the protagonism of the banking-financial sector inside the ruling power and the consolidation of the financial hegemony as a defining structural limit to development, expansion and deepening of income distribution.

Orientador: Samuel Frederico / Resumo: Nos momentos de forte expansão financeira da geografia histórica do capitalismo, como no atual período da globalização, a lógica financeira, ao se autonomizar diante das sociedades e da economia real, impõe suas normas de rentabilidade às empresas e ao território. Desse modo, para a compreensão da relação entre o atual fenômeno de financeirização da economia e o uso agrícola do território brasileiro, analisamos como as técnicas da informação permitem a captura da renda fundiária a partir da atuação da empresa SLC Agrícola. Portanto, a partir dos trabalhos de campo realizados no Piauí, no Maranhão e na Bahia, nos quais realizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas, com camponeses, representantes do Estado e visitas às fazendas de empresa agrícolas, e a realização de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a temática, além de levantamento e análise de dados secundários, esta dissertação buscou responder a algumas questões: como o IPO das empresas agrícolas, em particular, da SLC Agrícola resultou em novos usos do território pela empresa? De que forma uma empresa agrícola de capital aberto busca transformar a terra em ativo financeiro? Como as técnicas da informação são utilizadas para a captura de renda da terra? Como a SLC Agrícola gera valor aos acionistas por meio da precificação do seu portfólio de terras? Quais são os impactos territoriais do atual fenômeno de land grabbing? Por meio dessas questões, revelou-se que a articulação das empresas agrícolas com o capital financeiro, aliado ao... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In the moments of strong financial expansion of the historical geography of capitalism, as in the current period of globalization, the financial logic, by becoming autonomous in relation to societies and the real economy, imposes its norms of profitability on companies and territory. Thus, to understand the relationship between the current phenomenon of financialization of the economy and the agricultural use of the Brazilian territory, we analyze how information techniques allow the capture of land income from the activities of the company SLC Agrícola. Therefore, from the field work carried out in Piauí, Maranhão and Bahia, in which we conducted semi-structured interviews with peasants, state representatives and visits to farms of agricultural companies, and a literature review on the subject, as well as From the survey and analysis of secondary data, this dissertation sought to answer some questions: How did the IPO of agricultural companies, in particular, of SLC Agrícola result in new uses of the territory by the company? How does a publicly traded agricultural company seek to make land a financial asset? How are information techniques used to capture land income? How does SLC Agrícola generate shareholder value by pricing its land portfolio? What are the territorial impacts of the current land grabbing phenomenon? Through these questions, it was revealed that the articulation of agricultural companies with financial capital, combined with the use of information techniqu... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Les marchés futures de matières premières existent depuis des siècles. Néanmoins, depuis le début du 21e siècle, le développement en parallèle de la financiarisation et de marchés futures sur une matière première non-stockable (l’électricité) a bouleversé leur fonctionnement.Les trois essais de cette thèse étudient théoriquement et empiriquement les marchés futures de matières premières dans différentes conditions de fonctionnement.Le premier essai est une étude empirique qui montre l’existence de l’effet Samuelson sur les marchés futures d’électricité. Ce faisant, il montre que le stockage n’est pas une condition nécessaire à l’existence d’un tel effet.Le second essai est un modèle qui montre comment le comportement dynamique des prix d’une matière première stockable sur un marché futures segmenté du reste de l’économie est impacté par ses caractéristiques physiques, et notamment par le coût de stockage.Enfin, le troisième essai est un modèle qui montre que la financiarisation modifie la fonction de partage des risques des marchés futures de matières premières, et ce, quelle que soit la maturité concernée. / Commodity futures markets have a long history. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, both the financialization process and the development of futures markets on a non-storable commodity (the electricity) have shake up their functioning.The three essays of this thesis study theoretically and empirically commodity futures markets in different situations of functioning.The first essay is an empirical study that shows that the Samuelson effect exists on electricity derivative markets. As a consequence, it shows that storage is not a necessary condition for such an effect.The second essay is a model that shows how the dynamic behavior of storable commodity prices on a segmented futures market is affected by its physical characteristics, and more precisely by the cost of storage.Further, the third essay is a model that shows that financialization changes the risk sharing function of commodity futures markets, whatever the concerned maturity.

This paper examines current and suggested iterations of the climate finance architecture and potential risks in capital generation and delivery. Which is achieved via the construction of a literature review which aims to capture the main actors involved in the climate finance architecture. This is then contrasted to a post-keynesian and development economics synthesized framework focusing on liquidity preference, asymmetrical relationships and Minskyan financial instability. Utilizing data on current accounts, private capital flow instability and reserve asset accumulation we are able to show the explanatory power of our synthesized framework in explaining global capital imbalances and its impact on global financial flows and the impact on middle and low income countries. Using the insights gathered from our synthesized framework we then contrast it to the literature review, examining it for observable limitations in capital generation and delivery. In doing so a couple of things are noted, there are significant points of contention relating to capital generation and delivery in the climate finance architecture, potentially resulting in volatile asset prices and a negative impact on effective climate finance. Simultaneously it’s observed that climate finance is not catalytical for financial instability but a growing dependency and intertwining with conventional private financial flows may result in bouts of greater financial instability of climate finance assets. Lastly the paper affirms that there is a need to further examine the role and function of blended finance mechanisms.

Since the onset of the global financial crisis, urban dwellers face an increasing number of obstacles in establishing themselves on the housing market. Against this backdrop, this paper addresses the variegated dynamics of real estate dispossession in the tourist conurbation Los Cristianos/Las Américas on an intra-urban scale. First, I will present the spatio-temporal patterns of dispossession for the period 2001–2015 using the ATLANTE database (CGPJ). Specifically, I analyze mortgage foreclosures and tenant evictions, both for residential and commercial spaces. Second, I delve deeper into local experiences of dispossession of the resident population and their housing and income conditions by means of questionnaires that I conducted in 2018. The data shows that mortgage foreclosures and dispossessions of residential spaces predominate the initial years after the crisis, albeit with varied spatial incidence. However, the increase in tenant evictions from 2014 onwards points to a reconfiguration of displacement dynamics. Indeed, as stated by the interviewees, staggeringly high rent burdens have become the main driver for displacement from both living and working spaces in recent years. Given the ongoing global pandemic, further and more nuanced research is necessary to grasp how these prevailing housing insecurities are shaped during and beyond the coronavirus crisis.

This thesis studies the impact of shale gas on commodity and stock markets in the U.S. by employing wavelet approach and conducting a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between natural gas and important representatives of commodity markets: crude oil, coal, corn, wheat, and several indices. It covers the period from 2006 to 2015 and is performed on daily data. Our thesis enlarges existing literature on comovement between natural gas with other energy commodities and stocks using wavelet coherence - a methodology which allows analyzing comovement among assets not only from a time series perspective but also over different frequencies. Financialization of natural gas and its involvement in investment portfolios under changing conditions on the U.S. gas market provide space for examination of gas proper correlation estimates in respect to other financial assets. Our results reveal natural gas comovement behaviour with examined commodities during the Financial Crisis. They show gradual decoupling between gas and crude oil prices in time. To the best of our knowledge we are the first to address natural gas using wavelet coherence in connection to agricultural commodities corn and wheat. These commodities together with natural gas are primary sources for bioethanol production being used in...

L’objet de cette thèse est d’étudier dans un contexte de financiarisation des marchés de matières premières, certaines stratégies adoptées par les investisseurs et leurs impacts sur la volatilité et le co-mouvement excessif entre les marchés énergétiques et financiers. Pour ce faire, trois études sont proposées. La première fait appel aux modèles à changement de régime (MS-VAR) appliqués sur un ensemble des produits énergétiques et couvre la période 1992-2017. Les résultats obtenus suggèrent qu’en période de forte volatilité, les agents commerciaux (agents de couverture) jouent un rôle crucial dans la découverte des prix du marché du gaz. Cependant, ces agents de couverture affectent le bon fonctionnement des autres marchés (pétrole, essence, fioul) et amplifient leur volatilité. La deuxième étude traite les modèles GARCH ADCC versus GARCH DCC sur un échantillon de 17 pays et sur la période 1997-2016. Cette étude met en avant l’effet asymétrique des chocs pétroliers sur les corrélations conditionnelles des marchés asiatiques et africains, qui s’expliquent notamment par les activités d’arbitrage et les comportements hétérogènes des investisseurs. La troisième étude porte sur les modèles autorégressifs à retards échelonnés (ARDL) et révèle qu’après la crise financière, et au-delà des fondamentaux macro-économiques et financiers, l’indice de la spéculation excessive explique, aussi bien à long terme qu’à court terme, la corrélation entre le marché pétrolier et les marchés financiers de certains pays. Ceci génère un phénomène de co-mouvement excessif, et donc un effet de financiarisation sur ces marchés. Enfin, nous concluons les éléments suivantes : premièrement, en période de forte volatilité, le marché du gaz constitue une valeur refuge pour les investisseurs financiers ; deuxièmement, le comportement de l’investisseur explique l’effet de co-mouvement excessif entre le marché pétrolier et certains marchés financiers ; troisièmement, ce phénomène de co-mouvement excessif limite les avantages de la diversification internationale des portefeuilles notamment au moment des turbulences financières. / The object of this thesis is to study in a context of financialization of commodity markets, some strategies adopted by investors and their impact on volatility and excess co-movement between energy markets and financial markets. To this end, three studies are proposed. The first study uses the approach VAR with Switching Regime (MS-VAR) applied to energy markets during the period 1992-2017. The results suggest that during high volatility period, commercial agents (hedging agents) play a crucial role in the discovery of gas market prices. However, these agents affect the efficiency of other markets (crude oil, gasoline, heating oil) and amplify their volatilities. The second study employs GARCH ADCC versus GARCH DCC models for a sample of 17 countries and covering the period 1997-2016. This study highlights the asymmetric effect of oil shocks on the conditional correlations of the Asian and African markets, which can be explained in particular by the arbitrage activities and the heterogeneous behavior of investors. The third study focuses on Autoregressive Distributed Lag models (ARDL) and reveals that after the financial crisis, and beyond the macroeconomic and financial fundamentals, the index of excessive speculation, explains in long term as well as in short term, the correlation between oil market and some financial markets. This generates a phenomenon of excess co-movement, and therefore a financializing effect on these markets. Finally, we can conclude that : firstly, during high volatility period, gas market is a safe haven for financial investors ; secondly, the behavior of the investor explains the effect of excess co-movement between the oil market and some financial markets ; thirdly, this phenomenon of excess co-movement limits the benefits of international portfolio diversification especially during financial turbulences.

Questo lavoro si compone di due parti. La prima parte, costituita dal capitolo primo, fornisce una comparazione teorica di due teorie economiche in ambito di dottrina monetaria, ovvero la teoria New Keynesiana e quella Post Keynesiana. Nella seconda parte, viene ideato e implementato attraverso il software un modello teorico macroeconomico di impostazione Post Keynesiana. L’argomento di analisi è il processo di cartolarizzazione – illustrato nel capitolo 2 – che è stato al centro della crisi finanziaria che ha colpito gli Stati Uniti nel 2007-2009. L’obiettivo del lavoro è quello di analizzare, attraverso la costruzione di un modello – esposto nel capitolo 3 – che utilizza la metodologia Stock-Flow Consistent, i collegamenti tra il settore finanziario e il mercato delle case al fine di stabilire la natura della crisi: si è trattato di una crisi trainata dalla finanza o dal comportamento delle famiglie? La novità del nostro lavoro consiste nella descrizione dettagliata nell’ambito dell’approccio Stock-Flow Consistent del comportamento delle banche private, assumendo una gestione attiva di bilancio da parte delle banche di investimento. / This work is basically divided into two parts. The first part – chapter 1 – provides a comparison between two theory of monetary economics: New Keynesian and Post Keynesian. The second part is represented by the elaboration and implementation of a theoretical macroeconomic model, grounded in Post Keynesian theory. The subject under investigation is the securitization process – illustrated in chapter 2 – which has been at the centre of the 2007-2009 crisis in the United States. The aim is to analyze, through the construction of an elaborate model – in chapter 3 – the links between the financial sector and the housing market and to assess the nature of the crisis: was the 2007-2009 financial crisis a households-led or a finance-led crisis? The novelty of our work is represented by the detailed description in the Stock-Flow Consistent approach of the private banking sector, assuming that investment banks carry out an active management of their balance sheets.

The paper discusses the interactions of changes in income distribution and the accumulation dynamics in the post-Fordist accumulation regime in OECD countries, which is characterized by deregulated financial markets. The neoliberal mode of regulation came with a decisive shift in power relations at the expense of labor, which is clearly reflected in the fall of wage shares across OECD economies. The notion of a "finance-dominated" accumulation regime is proposed to highlight that financial developments crucially shape the pattern and the pace of accumulation. Financial globalization has relaxed balance of payment constraints and thereby allowed the build up of big international imbalances. The combination of real wage moderation and financial liberalization has led to different strategies (or at least outcomes) in different countries. While some countries (like the USA) exhibit a credit-fuelled consumption-driven growth model that comes with large current account deficits, others (like Germany and Japan) show an export-driven growth model with modest consumption growth and large current account surpluses. Overall the finance-dominated accumulation regime is characterized by a mediocre growth performance and by a high degree of fragility. (author´s abstract) / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series