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Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines
Kondo, Toshio; Aniceto Orbeta Jr.; Dingcong, Clarence; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by assisting organizations that employed the Grameen Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363603
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues
Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters’ and national regulators’ response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278058
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues
Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters’ and national regulators’ response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278157
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278053
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278152
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278206
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The Role of State Intervention in the Financial Sector : Crisis Prevention, Containment, and Resolution
Cho, Yoon Je - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper discusses the role of state intervention for prevention, containment, and resolution of financial crises based mainly on the Korean experience during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Crises in emerging market and developing economies tend to be more complicated than those faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363798
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The Financial Crisis and the Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies : A European Banking Perspective
Utzig, Siegfried - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Credit rating agencies (CRAs) bear some responsibility for the financial crisis that started in 2007 and remains ongoing. This is acknowledged by policymakers, market participants, and by the agencies themselves. It soon became clear that, given the depth of the crisis, CRAs would not be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363895
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International Remittances and Household Expenditures : The Philippine Case
Tabuga, Aubrey D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363577
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Children and Household Savings in the Philippines
Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between household savings and family size. Household savings are important … shortfalls. Descriptive and multivariate evidence on the relationship of household savings and family size are provided. The … endogeneity of family size in the household savings equation, as argued for in the old-age security hypothesis, is properly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365222