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Brazil's Capital Market : Current Status and Issues for Further Development
Author/Editor: Joonkyu Park. Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00Capital market development in Brazil is a key policy issue going forward to foster savings, investment and absorptive capacity in a context of prospects for sizable capital flows in the medium term. more... |
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Intra-Regional Spillovers in South America: Is Brazil Systemic after All?
Author/Editor: Gustavo Adler, Sebastian Sosa. Release Date: June, 2012 Price: $18.00Shocks stemming from Brazil - the large neighbor in South America - have historically been a source of concern for policy-makers in other countries of the region. This paper studies the importance of more... |
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Peru: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies, 1930 - 1980
Author/Editor: Gonzalo C. Pastor. Release Date: June, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper reviews monetary and exchange rate policies in Peru in 1930-80. The review covers major transformations to the world economy, including the post-1929 crash and WWII, and changing economic more... |
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Do Dynamic Provisions Enhance Bank Solvency and Reduce Credit Procyclicality? A Study of the Chilean Banking System
Author/Editor: Jorge A. Chan-Lau. Release Date: May, 2012 Price: $18.00Dynamic provisions could help to enhance the solvency of individual banks and reduce procyclicality. Accomplishing these objectives depends on country-specific features of the banking system, more... |
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BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and Their Implications for LICs
Author/Editor: Nkunde Mwase, Yongzheng Yang. Release Date: March, 2012 Price: $18.00Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding more... |
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Market Discipline and Conflicts of Interest Between Banks and Pension Funds
Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Mario Catalan. Release Date: December, 2011 Price: $18.00We study the behavior of private pension funds as large depositors in a banking system. Using panel data analysis, we examine whether, and if so how, pension funds influence market discipline in more... |
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Determinants of Development Financing Flows From Brazil, Russia, India, and China to Low-Income Countries
Author/Editor: Nkunde Mwase. Release Date: November, 2011 Price: $18.00BRICs development financing flows have increased significantly and are expected to become more prominent in the post-crisis era. We investigate the potential implications on the country-allocation of more... |
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Investment by Large Firms in Argentina
Author/Editor: Alvaro Piris. Release Date: January, 2010 Price: $18.00Strong growth in investment made a key contribution to the economic recovery in Argentina earlier this decade. The paper uses firm-level data to assess changes in financing constraints and the more... |
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Paraguay : First Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Press Release on the Executive Board Consideration
Release Date: June, 2008 Price: $18.00Improvements in macroeconomic conditions are encouraging, and the current macroeconomic framework for 2006 and 2007 remains valid in Paraguay. The strong fiscal performance has applied also to the more... |
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Chile : Selected Issues
Release Date: September, 2007 Price: $15.00This Selected Issues paper analyzes the properties of the fiscal surplus rule, a key pillar of Chile’s macroeconomic framework. The findings suggest that the rule is near the more... |
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Brazil's Long-Term Growth Performance—Trying to Explain the Puzzle
Author/Editor: Ricardo Adrogué, Martin D Cerisola, R G Gelos. Release Date: December, 2006 Price: $20.00This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation techniques, building on the vast empirical literature on growth. The empirical more... |
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