Levels of interest rates below historical norms may have enhanced financial instability in developed and developing economies during the 2000's. The risk taking channel of monetary policy transmission is a recent theory that explains the interaction between risk perceptions of the financial...

The recent financial crisis has brought to the forefront the need for a better understanding of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy. The main step forward on this issue has drawn on work aimed at stressing the role of the financial sector in this transmission. Particular emphasis has...

In this paper we investigate the impact of rapid credit growth on ex ante credit risk. We present micro-econometric evidence of the positive relationship between rapid credit growth and deterioration in lending portfolios: Loans granted during boom periods have higher probability of default than...

We explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of Latin American economiesunder the endogenous cycle perspective. For this group of countries, the paper confirms the resultsof previous work on industrialized countries, which indicate that a combination of asset...

We explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of Latin American economies under the endogenous cycle perspective. For this group of countries, the paper confirms the results of work on industrialized countries that a combination of asset prices and credit provides...

We explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of Latin American economies under the endogenous cycle perspective. For this group of countries, the paper confirms the results of work on industrialized countries that a combination of asset prices and credit provides...

The recent financial crisis has renewed the interest of economists, both at the theoretical and empirical level, in developing a better understanding of credit and its mechanisms. A rapidly growing strand of the literature views banks as facing funding restrictions that condition their borrowing...

Son grandes los riesgos a que se enfrenta quien, pretendiendo ir más lejos de las tradicionales interpretaciones de Marx, intenta y propone una comparación de las ideas de este autor con las de otro posterior a él. Tal vez el peor de estos riesgos sea el de ser tildado de revisionista y...

Para lo que aquí interesa, el énfasis debe hacerse no sobre el déficit como un problema de política fiscal, sino sobre la orientación y las formas de la política económica general que enmarcan las discusiones acerca del déficit fiscal. Desde esta perspectiva, los acontecimientos más...