'Rivalry and collaboration. Relations between Buenos Aires merchant bankers and European bankers in the issue of Argentine government bonds in the 1880s' in L Quennouelle-Corre & Y Cassis (eds), Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Deals with the role of investment banks on both sides of the Atlantic who were leaders in establishing bridges between the financial markets of Latin America and Europe in the 1880s, with a focus on Argentina. The main argument put forward is that 'a full understanding of international capital flows requires an understanding of the dynamics of the actors in both emerging financial markets of debtor states and the mature financial markets of the main capital supplying nations'