Barajas, Adolfo; Chami, Ralph; Cosimano, Thomas - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2004)
Drawing from a unique data set comprising 2,893 banks and 152 countries over the period 1987 to 2000, we test whether the adoption of the Basel Accord by Latin American and Caribbean countries was responsible for the serious slowdowns in credit growth experienced by these countries. We find...