"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical …

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank … supervision and to improve the quality of credit analysis by financial institutions. Empirical tests using public credit registry … empirical tests confirm the value of the data for credit risk evaluation and provide insights regarding its use in supervision …

; registration system; credit reference bureau; realization of collateral; judicial framework; insolvency and corporate …

channels through which credit affects growth on the micro-level is scant. Using data from a cross section of Bulgarian firms …, the authors estimate the impact of access to credit (as proxied by indicators of whether firms have access to a credit or …' past growth to instrument for access to credit. The authors find credit to be positively and strongly associated with total …

"The authors study the effect of financial crises on trade credit in a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies …. They find that although provision of trade credit increases right after the crisis, it consequently collapses in the … short-term debt and low cash stocks and cash flows) are more likely to reduce trade credit provided to their customers. This …

"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important … aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending … presumably face sizable transaction costs obtaining external credit. The author develops and estimates a model based on limited …