using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …

studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …

The salient characteristics of emerging market economies coupled with the increasing adoption of inflation targeting in … these countries has stimulated much debate about the role of the exchange rate in inflation targeting regimes. The authors … impact on the volatility of the exchange rate in Mexico and Turkey since the adoption of the floating regime. To this end …

), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper …

-such as small businesses-unserved. The authors examine this issue. Using bank-level data for Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and … efficiency. Others are concerned that foreign banks might choose to extend credit only to certain customers, leaving some sectors … was considerably smaller for large and medium-sized banks. And in Chile and Colombia, large foreign banks might actually …

Brazilian crisis to Mexico and Chile. …

Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Costs include investment banking and legal fees, regulatory and exchange listing costs, rating … Chile from a transaction cost perspective, over the past decade most firms have used bonds rather than shares to raise …

inflation expectations. The short- and long-run effects of a rise in official interest rates and tax increases are analyzed. The …

. Although firms report bank corruption, there is no evidence that it significantly affects the allocation of credit or the … performance of firms that receive the credit. The findings suggest that the role of reputation and relationship based financing …

While the theoretical and empirical finance literature has focused almost exclusively on enterprise credit, about half … of credit extended by banks to the private sector in a sample of 45 developing and developed countries is to households …. The share of household credit in total credit increases as countries grow richer and financial systems develop. Cross …