-analysis techniques, we summarise the results for five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) that use … confidential bank-loan data. The use of granular credit registry data helps us to disentangle loan demand from loan supply effects … without making strong assumptions. Results from another three countries (Canada, Chile and the United States) corroborate the …

Mexico, Chile and Israel. Credit from the banking sector to the private sector expanded very rapidly following the … that the most important channels for the expansion in credit to consumers in Mexico are the rapid remonetization of the …This paper presents an empirical investigation of the role of credit in the post-stabilization consumption booms of …