a randomized experiment across 110 bank branches throughout Mexico, a lottery incentive based on net monthly deposits …. Nearly all new accounts (96%) were opened by households previously unbanked at any bank. The temporary two-month incentive …

of the causes of malfunction. We combine data from administrative records on severance cases filed in the Mexico City …

detailed observational data and a large-scale countrywide experiment to examine a large bank's experience with a credit card … that accounted for approximately 15% of all first-time formal sector borrowing in Mexico in 2010. Borrowers have limited … period. We use a large-scale randomized experiment on a representative sample of the bank's marginal borrowers to test …

manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the … order to reverse the increase in drug-related crime is not high. We estimate it to be approximately 0.1%of Mexico's GDP …

diabetes problems in the world, Mexico. We implement a novel deniers randomization approach to cost-effectively provide a …

number of checks decreases over time as their reported trust in the bank and savings increase. Their overall savings rate …

actions by bank owners to change management, contract with depositors to extend liability maturity structure, write off bad … assets, and/or inject capital affected bank survival and deposit retention. This historical episode is particularly …

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression …. We assemble bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combine those data with county-level, state … bank failure. We construct a model of bank survival duration using these fundamental determinants of bank failure as …