Nuevas formas de entender la banca, los avances tecnologicos y la regulacion dan lugar a nuevos medios de interaccion entre los clientes y los bancos a traves de contratos de externalizacion. Este documento ofrece la primera base de datos armonizada con el numero de corresponsales bancarios por...

En este documento de trabajo se explica el proceso de construccion de la union bancaria, el proyecto europeo mas ambicioso desde la moneda unica, lanzado en 2012 para enviar a los mercados una senal fuerte de unidad frente a la fragmentacion financiera y al riesgo de ruptura del euro.

We rely on demand and supply-side information to measure the extent of financial inclusion at country level for eighty-two developed and less-developed countries. We postulate that the degree of financial inclusion is determined by three dimensions: usage, barriers and access to financial...

In this paper we develop a new Early Warning System (EWS) of Banking Crises based on a new estimated indicator of the gap between the observed private credit ratio and its long-term structural level.

In this paper we introduce several methodological innovations in an empirical analysis of the determinants of the private Credit-to-GDP ratio, which allow us to estimate the long-term sustainable level of credit deepening in a country and its deviations. We also find new evidence of different...

This study analyses whether self-confidence affects financial abilities of young people in Spain, through financial literacy. We use data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Financial Literacy (2012) report, conducted by the OECD. Our hypothesis is that non-cognitive...

La crisis ha fomentado la consolidacion y concentracion de muchos sectores bancarios, alimentando el debate sobre los efectos de una mayor concentracion sobre el nivel de competencia y la estabilidad del sistema. No obstante, las conclusiones de la literatura sobre este tema no soportan que...

Portfolio flows across Emerging Markets (EMs) have been particularly volatile over the last years. Financial distress at the beginning of the crisis was followed by monetary policy reactions in developed economies and emerging countries triggering push and pull forces favourable for flow...

El presente estudio analiza en que medida la autoconfianza afecta a las habilidades financieras de los jovenes en Espana, via sus conocimientos sobre cuestiones financieras. Para ello tomamos los datos del Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Financial Literacy (2012) llevado a...

Real exchange rates exhibit important low-frequency fluctuations. This makes the analysis of real exchange rates at all frequencies a more sound exercise than the typical business cycle one, which compares actual and simulated data after the Hodrick-Prescott …lter is applied to both. A...