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Macroprudential Regulations in Central America
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Loo-Kung, Rudy; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
In recent years, and especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, a number of emerging market economies have been reforming their regulatory frameworks to adopt recommendations of the macroprudential approach. This paper discusses the potential usefulness of implementing this...
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La revolución silenciosa de las instituciones y la estabilidad macroeconómica
Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
La estabilización de las economías y una transformación profunda pero silenciosa de las instituciones ocurrieron en forma paralela en América Latina en las últimas décadas. Este artículo analiza los canales de influencia de los cambios de las instituciones fiscales y de los sistemas...
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Housing Finance in Peru: What is Holding it Back?
Bonilla, Miguel Palomino; Barrantes, Rudy Wong - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Housing for most Peruvians is improving but is still grossly inadequate. Nonetheless, public housing finance policies mainly involve programs that subsidize middle-income families and banks that lend to them. Research summarized in this paper indicates that financing will not be the main...
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Housing Finance in Mexico: Current State and Future Sustainability
Lopez-Silva, Marco; Abreu-Lastra, Raul; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
financial implications for participating mortgage issuers, as poorer applicants with lower job stability are injected into the …’s principal mortgage issuer, which contains information on borrowers’ repayment behavior. It is found that borrowers who received … not seem to have negative financial implications for participating mortgage institutions. …
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The Missing Foundations of Housing Finance: Incomplete Markets, Fragmented Policies and Emerging Solutions in Guatemala
Cuevas, Mario; Lee, Sigfrido; Bonilla, Maria Isabel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In Guatemala there are substantial and growing imbalances in the housing market; at the same time, financial markets remain shallow and underdeveloped. The analytical framework applied in this paper starts by identifying the types of market failures responsible for the underdevelopment of the...
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El sector financiero en Honduras: Visión general y tópicos sobre la red de seguridad financiera
Guerrero, Rosa Matilde; Focke, Kurt S.; Armijos, Simón … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
El sistema financiero de Honduras sufrió el impacto de la crisis financiera de 2009 con un deterioro de los indicadores de calidad de activos y de rentabilidad, que posteriormente experimentaron una recuperación en 2010. En el último año se ha podido notar una preferencia de los agentes por...
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Banks and SMES: Raising the Game: 4th Regional Survey in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
SMEs are positioning themselves as a strategic branch of banking operations in the region, while banks are increasingly pushing for more active policies when it comes to the financing of SMEs. This is one of the highlighted conclusions from a 2011 joint survey conducted by the Inter-American...
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CMF in Review: 2006-2011
Hooten, Christopher; Pietrobelli, Carlo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper presents a retrospective review of several key areas of work of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to...
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Reforming Latin American housing markets : a guide for policy analysis
2004
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Expanding access to financial services in Latin America
Basch H., Miguel (contributor); Morales, Camilo (contributor) - 1995
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