Over the last decade economic integration has advanced in both areas, and this has been seen as an opportunity for real convergence in Latin America and in the European periphery. But our approach emphasises that integration has to be supplemented by macroeconomic stability and structural...

Spanish Abstract: En este artículo se resume brevemente la literatura reciente sobre indicadores de crisis en países emergentes, así como los problemas que rodean su elaboración y la utilidad que pueden tener para las autoridades y los participantes en los mercados financieros. En el primer...

After analyzing the different reasons why the financial system and also the regulatory framework induced procyclicality, this paper reviews the experiences of three countries which have introduced dynamic provisioning as a regulatory tool to limit procyclicality. The case of...

Over the last decade economic integration has advanced in both areas, and this has been seen as an opportunity for real convergence in Latin America and in the European periphery. But our approach emphasises that integration has to be supplemented by macroeconomic stability and structural...

El presente trabajo parte de la constatación de dos hechos: por un lado, una gran parte de la población de América Latina carece de acceso a servicios financieros y bancarios, pese a que existe una considerable demanda potencial, en parte por problemas de falta de penetración de la...