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Unlocking SME Finance in Argentina with Psychometrics
Klinger, Bailey; Castro, Lucio; Szenkman, Paula; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric tool aimed at evaluating credit risk among SME clients of Banco Ciudad … de Buenos Aires (BCBA), one of the top three public banks of Argentina. SME responses were compared to their historical … repayment records to determine if psychometric-based credit scoring models could help ameliorate the constraints to SME finance …
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Firm Size and Credit in Argentina
Auguste, Sebastian; Bebczuk, Ricardo N.; Sanchez, Gabriel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The goal of this paper is to study the link between bank credit (and internal funding) and average firm size in Argentina. Besides the fact that economic growth tends to go hand in hand with larger firm size, the topic is of particular interest because of the severe credit crunch in Argentina in...
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Small Is Not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link between Credit, Firm Size and Competitiveness in Colombia
Galindo, Arturo; Melendez, Marcela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Credit has been found to be a catalyst for economic growth, as it spurs investment, enhances productivity, allows costs to be spread out over time, improves resource allocation, and enables investors to cope better with macroeconomic volatility. Most studies focus on the relationship between...
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Clasificación de los sistemas de garantía desde la experiencia latinoamericana
Pombo, Pablo; Molina, Horacio; Ramírez, Jesus N. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Los sistemas de garantía son instrumentos que tratan de mitigar las disfunciones que genera la exigencia de garantías a los empresarios en las operaciones crediticias. En este trabajo se diagnostican los efectos no deseados que provocan las reglas internacionales en el acceso al financiamiento...
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Developing an Index of Liquidity-Risk Exposure: An Application to Latin American and Caribbean Banking Systems
Federico, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
After the 2007-2009 global financial crisis and previous financial crises in Latin America, the liquidity-risk exposure of banking systems is considered one of the most important vulnerabilities. At the same time, that exposure may also be the most mysterious of those vulnerabilities, as the...
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A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Masci, Pietro; Crabbe, Carolin A.; Ríos, Guillermo Larraín - Inter-American Development Bank; The Principal …
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
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A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Masci, Pietro; Crabbe, Carolin A.; Ríos, Guillermo Larraín - Inter-American Development Bank; The Principal …
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772422
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Accounting for saving : financial liberalization, capital flows and growth in Latin America and Europe
Reinhart, Carmen M. (ed.) - 1999
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Deepening integration in MERCOSUR: Dealing with Disparities
Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita; Blyde, Juan; Giordano, Paolo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Regional integration among asymmetric countries is a hot and burning policy topic worldwide. Deepening Integration in MERCOSUR analyzes the most important issues of economic integration and policy coordination that countries face as they advance towards deeper integration and are urged to...
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An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes
Patten, Christopher; Whitehead, Laurence; Álamo, Óscar del - Inter-American Development Bank
Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a group of international experts discussed three important current issues …
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