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Banking Unconditionally : The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in Latin America
Kaplan, Stephen B. - 2016
Globalization scholars have long-debated to what extent economic integration, and specifically, mobile private capital constrains national policymaking. With Western capital reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, state-owned capital made inroads globally. China, as the world's largest saver,...
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Can Fintech foster competition in the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Bejar, Pablo; Ishi, Kotaro; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22
This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean and investigates the early impact of fintech development in the region thus far. Against the backdrop of high net interest margins (NIMs) and limited financial depth in the region, panel...
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Stock Market Co-Movement in Latin America
de Medeiros, Otavio Ribeiro - 2012
This paper investigates co-movement in eight Latin-American stock markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela) using common factor analysis. The common factors are obtained using principal component analysis (PCA) and therefore account for the maximum...
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Market Structure, Growth and Competition in the Supermarket Sector in Latin America
Delgado, Juan - 2015
Supermarkets play a limited but increasingly important role in Latin-America groceries retail markets. Traditional grocery retailers still play a substantial role in most Latin American countries and the penetration of supermarkets is still behind the developed countries. Paradoxically, within...
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Bank Risk Determinants in Latin America
Baselga-Pascual, Laura - 2020
paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin America. The period analysed covers the timespan from 1999 to 2013 …-driven comparable methodology to classify and select commercial banks from the sample. We study bank risk proxied by the Z-score. In the … analysis, we apply bank specific, macroeconomic and regulatory variables. We use the system-GMM estimator as our main empirical …
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The Rise of Anti-Cartel Enforcement in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Connor, John M. - 2016
This paper examines the rise of cartel enforcement in Europe, North America, and the Rest of the World (ROW) over the past 25 years in greater detail and with more indicators than previous publications. I find that in the past decade the ROW antitrust authorities have made extraordinarily rapid...
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Bank risk determinants in Latin America
Martínez-Malvar, Mariña; Baselga-Pascual, Laura - In: Risks : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/94, pp. 1-21
paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin America. The period analysed covers the timespan from 1999 to 2013 …-driven comparable methodology to classify and select commercial banks from the sample. We study bank risk proxied by the Z-score. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293308
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Special tax regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean : compliance, social protection, and resource misallocation
Azuara, Oliver; Azuero, Rodrigo; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; … - 2019
Simplified tax regimes reduce both tax rates and compliance costs for small firms. On the one hand, these regimes increase the number of businesses formally registered and have the potential of also expanding the safety net when they subsidize the contributions to social security of workers in...
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Market power in Latin America in worldwide perspective : an empirical exploration
Heresi, Rodrigo - 2024
While there is widespread evidence of increasing markups in the United States and other developed economies in the last several decades, little is known about that evolution in developing economies, particularly Latin American countries. Using a harmonized dataset on listed firms from 70...
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Market Definition Analysis in Latin America with Applications to Internet-Based Industries
Evans, David S.; Mariscal, Elisa V. - 2013
There has been a surge of recent antitrust cases involving Internet-based industries around the world, including in Latin America. These types of industries present special challenges for authorities, as their analysis requires an understanding of the fast-paced, innovative, and multi-sided...
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