Using firm-level surveys for up to 73 countries, this paper explores the impact of introducing collateral registries … introduced collateral registries for movable assets against three control groups: firms in all countries that did not introduce a … for movable assets, and firms in countries that undertook other types of collateral reforms but did not set up registries …

The Czech Republic had experienced a credit boom similar to those in other converging economies in the pre-crisis years …. Nevertheless, the consequences of this credit boom were limited as was the impact of the global crisis on domestic financial … tame credit booms in small converging economies, a concerted set of microprudential and macroprudential measures, including …

highlight that information spillovers between lenders may operate outside credit registries …

-up in lending flows to the private sector, rendering the recovery credit-less. This paper uses data on output and credit to … study the relative roles of demand and supply drivers of credit growth during economic recoveries on a sample of advanced … and emerging countries between 1980 and 2014. Using a simple endowment economy model, the paper shows that credit …

understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a …

131 countries between 2005-2017. Overall, 77 percent of loans require collateral, and the median loan-to-collateral value … is 60 percent. Small firms and loans from non-bank financial institutions are less often associated with collateral. When … collateral is pledged, the type of collateral assets is strongly correlated with the loan-to-value ratio …

though they are individually solvent, and cheaper access to credit on average, since lenders are at risk only if no …