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Booms and Busts in Latin America: The Role of External Factors

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Romero, Randall; Talvi, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper analyzes the relevance of external factors in average quarterly GDP growth for 1990-2006 in the seven largest Latin American countries (LAC7). Modeling the relationship between LAC7 GDP and several external factors, it is found that those factors account for a significant share of...

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Capital Flows: Issues and Policies

Montiel, Peter - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper presents an analytical overview of recent contributions to the literature on the policy implications of capital flows in emerging and developing countries, focusing specifically on capital inflows as well as on the links between inflows and subsequent capital-flow reversals. The...

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Banking Crises and Financial Integration

Caballero, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper explores whether the level of financial integration of banks in a country increases the incidence of systemic banking crises. The paper uses a de facto proxy for financial integration based on network statistics of banks participating in the global market of interbank syndicated...

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Do Surges in International Capital Inflows Influence the Likelihood of Banking Crises? Cross-Country Evidence on Bonanzas in Capital Inflows and Bonanza-Boom- Bust Cycles

Caballero, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

occurrence of a bonanza and a lending boom raises these odds even more. Decomposing flows into FDI, portfolio-equity and debt … this is necessarily through a lending boom mechanism. A fixed effects regression analysis indicates that a baseline bonanza … absence of a lending boom. Thus, a bonanza raises the likelihood of a crisis from an unconditional probability of 4. 4 percent …

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¿Hay un sesgo anti-laboral en los impuestos en América Latina?

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Los impuestos a la nómina junto con los salarios mínimos han producido un notable encarecimiento de los costos laborales en América Latina desde los noventa. Puesto que, simultáneamente, las tasas de tributación de las empresas se han reducido, esta nota analiza si, como resultado, hay un...

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Coping with Financial Crises: Latin American Answers to European Questions

Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

and, where needed, restructuring to resolve banking crises and the debt overhang. Latin America’s experience yields …

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Equipment Leasing and Lending: A Guide for Microfinance

Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper describes how to do equipment finance--leasing and lending--for mainstream microentrepreneurs, that is, for … recommendations for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to use in their equipment leasing and lending programs. …

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Equipment Leasing and Lending: A Guide for Microfinance

Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

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Subsidies in Housing

Mayo, Stephen K. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This paper complements the IDB's Operational Guidelines for Housing and should be used together. It establishes guidelines for the design and evaluation of housing subsidies in Latin America. It provides a motivation and justification for subsidies on the basis of both traditional and enabling...

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Saving Behavior in Latin America: Overview and Policy Issues

Gavin, Michael; Hausmann, Ricardo; Talvi, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper reviews and contributes to the policy debate on the issue of saving in Latin America, presenting an alternative perspective on the relationship between saving and growth, saving and inflation stabilization and structural reform, and saving and capital flows.

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