Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the effect on borrowers' access to credit of FINCA's decision to share information on individual outstanding debt records (positive information) as well as group default records...

Rajan and Zingales (1995) find that tangibility, growth opportunity, size and performance are the four common determinants to explain capital structure across G-7 countries. In this study, we consider a sample of 590 firms from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru and United States of America, to...

This article reviews the literature analysing the importance of infrastructure for economic growth, and performs an econometric estimation to discover the relation between the two variables in the case of Peru. Different estimators are used with panel data from the 24 regions of Peru for the...

In this paper I study effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate a new measure of a monetary policy shock, correcting two possible risks as the endogeneity that a monetary policy shock may have with the economic activity...

In this paper I study the heterogeneous effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate five types of measures of a monetary policy shock, four of these measures try to correct two possible risks as the endogeneity that a...

This paper seeks to answer the question of what factors are conducive to depth of outreach or the attention of customers with lower incomes, by comercial microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Perú, in order to propose measures aimed to a greater financial inclusion to the microenterprise sector....

This paper summarises the results of a joint research project by eight central banks in the Americas region to evaluate the effectiveness of macroprudential tools and their interaction with monetary policy. In particular, using meta-analysis techniques, we summarise the results for five Latin...

We analyse the effect of commodity price cycles on firm investment decisions at the project level, by considering the decision to delay, cancel or complete a project as initially announced. In particular, we use logit and duration models of competing risks on a novel dataset of announced...