"This book highlights different aspects of economic infrastructure and their associated impact upon economic growth across countries and regions. It also delves into the issues related to foreign direct investment, financial infrastructure and their associated links to growth of the countries...

This paper assesses the determinants of NPLs in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and whether a deterioration in asset quality may result in negative feedback effects from the banking system to economic activity. The results suggest that the deterioration in asset quality can be...

Since the housing bust and financial crisis, mortgage lenders have introduced progressively higher minimum thresholds for acceptable credit scores. Using loan-level data, we document the introduction of these thresholds, as well as their effects on the distribution of newly originated mortgages....