This paper discusses the conceptual framework about corporate governance in emerging economies. Based on that framework and in the Chilean and international evidence, this paper analyses the main aspects concerning the corporate governance practices of Chilean companies, and explores several...

We analyze whether changes in external macroeconomic conditions are associated with changes in the dynamics of risk and changes in the degree of informativeness of the price system for the Chilean economy. By focusing our analysis in Chile, we hope to isolate the effect of external macroeconomic...

This paper begins with an assessment of the Dodd-Frank Act and the European Commission financial reform proposal regarding Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) business models, supervision and regulatory reliance on the use of Credit Rating Agencies' (CRAs) opinions. It concludes that they still do not...

This paper reviews the characteristics of the international incursions by banks since the early 1990s, examines the implications of the US subprime meltdown crisis and ensuing credit crunch for the pursuit of international banking activities, and provides a prospective view on how banks will...

This paper estimates the impact of reserve requirements (RR) on credit supply in Brazil, exploring a large loan-level dataset. We use a difference-in-difference strategy, first in a long panel, then in a cross-section. In the first case, we estimate the average effect on credit supply of several...

This paper explores the effects on constrained borrowers of an LTV limit implemented on September 2013 on two major segments of housing finance in Brazil. LTV (hard) limits and related policies entail identification challenges, since constrained individuals are no longer directly observed after...

This paper investigates the bank lending-channel of monetary policy (MP) surprises. To identify the effects of MP surprises on credit supply, I take the changes in interest rate derivatives immediately after each MP announcement and bring this high-frequency identification strategy to...