"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and government organizations are making to …, their use of non-bank financial services, and strategies for improving financial services to the unbanked. The underlying … differences between the countries' typical household incomes-national income per capita in Mexico in 2002 was US …

This paper analyzes the performance and development of the Mexican pension annuity market in Mexico that stemmed from … analyzes the evolution of the industrial organization, annuity product design and competition, the evolution of assets and …

State ownership in financial intermediation in Mexico has continued to be significant in qualitative as well as … quantitative, but qualitative, with influence on key sectors in the Mexican economic development. The 2001 joint World Bank … related to the operation of DBs in Mexico. Some DBs had unclear mandates or did not live up to their mandates with their …

Financial System Assessment Program (FSAP) update mission to Mexico from February 22 to March 8, 2006, an update of the … International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will be available to carry out full reassessments once self-assessments for the new …

for Mexico. Mexico's economic growth has been steady and inflation remained low despite a significant depreciation of the … several years of contained growth, commercial bank credit grew by 14 percent in 2015, albeit from a very low base …

The report is based on the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), and …

This technical note was prepared in the context of a World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program mission in the … outperforms them in terms of competition and efficiency. Given the country's relative low financial depth but competitive … of the private sector. This technical note takes four main approaches to examine the extent of competition and efficiency …

markets. "--World Bank web site …