Author/Editor: Agnes Belaisch, Charles Collyns, Paula De Masi, Guy Meredith, Anoop Singh, Reva Krieger, Robert Rennhack.

Release Date:February, 2005

This study examines external and domestic influences on Latin America’s economic performance over the past decade and a half. It notes that over the past few years, macroeconomic policies have more...

Author/Editor: Agnes Belaisch.

Release Date:July, 2003

In the last two years the real has undergone a large depreciation and the central bank has missed its inflation target in 2002 for the second year in a row. Inflation, however, has increased much more...

Author/Editor: Agnes Belaisch.

Release Date:June, 2003

More developed financial systems are associated with higher investment and better economic performance. This paper discusses possible factors that may inhibit a deepening of bank intermediation and more...

Author/Editor: Agnes Belaisch, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy, Laura E. Kodres, Angel J. Ubide.

Release Date:March, 2001

This paper analyses the process of disintermediation, the progress in consolidation, the impact of new technologies, and the role of ownership and control structures for the euro area banking sector. more...