Ein Transfer der Globalstrategien und Resolutionen der Vereinten Nationen auf die Ebene der Finanzdienstleistungen – Dem Wohnungssektor kommt aus Sicht der Vereinten Nationen und der Weltbank eine Schlüsselstellung für Wachstum und Entwicklung einer Volkswirtschaft zu. Zur Realisierung...

This paper provides a statistical overview of the extent and composition of publicly-funded loans granted by banks to Italian firms. The analysis is based on the universe of reports to the Central Credit Register (CR). Between 1998 and 2007 the subsidized loans recorded by the CR amounted to...

This study examines the pricing of high-LTV debt to determine whether state-specific default laws have an impact on the availability and cost of that debt. We develop a simple theoretical model that provides predictions concerning borrower and lender choice of mortgage terms under differing...

An unusually rich souce of data on housing prices in Stockholm is used to analyze the investment implications of housing choices. This empirical analysis derives market-wide price and return series for housing investment during a 13-year period, and it also provides estimates of the...

The purpose of this paper is to describe Microcredit, specifically the case for Cali's World Women Bank. This document has been structured on the following lines: History of Microcredit emphasizing on its definition; then, its development in Colombia; it describes how it was originally believed...

Does the ability to pledge an asset as collateral, after purchase, affect its price? This paper identifies the impact of collateral service flows on house prices, exploiting a plausibly exogenous constitutional amendment in Texas which legalized home equity loans in 1998. The law change...

An unusually rich source of data on housing prices in Stockholm is used to analyze the investment implications of housing choices. This empirical analysis derives market-wide price and return series for housing investment during a 13-year period, and it also provides estimates of the...

This paper studies the impact of foreign buyer taxes on house prices using recent law changes in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Counterfactual house prices are estimated for each treated location combining prediction techniques from machine learning with inference methods from the Synthetic...

Este trabajo busca revisar el microcrédito, en particular el caso del Banco Mundial de la Mujer de Cali. El documento está organizado a partir de generalidades, comenzando con la historia del microcrédito y haciendo énfasis en la definición de microcrédito; luego se traslada el tema a...

This paper provides a statistical overview of the extent and composition of publicly-funded loans granted by banks to Italian firms. The analysis is based on the universe of reports to the Central Credit Register (CR). Between 1998 and 2007 the subsidized loans recorded by the CR amounted to...