The relationship between bank competition, firm access to finance, and economic growth is a much debated topic in the … impact of bank competition on industry growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies. The results show that greater … competition. These results are robust to a variety of checks. The findings suggest that improving bank competition should be an …

evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this …

Mexico's challenges in infrastructure finance can be framed along similar lines as other Advanced Economies (AEs) and … large Emerging Market Economies (EMEs). Mexico is particularly well placed to make capital markets a reliable financing … source complementing bank financing. Its capital markets are relatively mature, there is sufficient critical mass of long …

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 …