 | Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean Author/Editor: Dmitry Gershenson, Frederic Lambert, Luis Herrera, Grey Ramos, Marina V Rousset, Jose Torres. Release Date:August, 2021 Despite some improvement since 2011, Latin America and the Caribbean continue to lag behind other regions in terms of financial inclusion. There is no clear evidence that fintech developments have more...
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| Labor Market Informality and the Business Cycle Author/Editor: Frederic Lambert, Andrea Pescatori, Frederik G Toscani. Release Date:November, 2020 Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle more...
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| Income Inequality and Government Transfers in Mexico Author/Editor: Frederic Lambert, Hyunmin Park. Release Date:July, 2019 We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it more...
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| NAFTA to USMCA: What is Gained? Author/Editor: Mary E Burfisher, Frederic Lambert, Troy D Matheson. Release Date:March, 2019 The United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed on November 30, 2018 and aims to replace and modernize the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, more...
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| More Work to Do? Taking Stock of Latin American Labor Markets Author/Editor: Antonio David, Frederic Lambert, Frederik G Toscani. Release Date:March, 2019 We analyze the performance of labor markets in Latin America since the late 1990s. Strong GDP growth during the commodity boom period led to important gains in employment and a fall in the more...
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 | Growing Pains : Is Latin America Prepared for Population Aging? Author/Editor: Lorenzo U Figliuoli, Valentina Flamini, Misael Galdamez, Frederic Lambert, Mike Li, Bogdan Lissovolik, Rosalind Mowatt, Jaume Puig, Alexander D Klemm, Mauricio Soto, Saji Thomas, Christoph Freudenberg, Anna Orthofer. Release Date:April, 2018 This paper estimates the fiscal costs of population aging in Latin America and provides policy recommendations on reforms needed to make these costs manageable. Although Latin American societies are more...
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| Post-crisis International Banking : An Analysis with New Regulatory Survey Data Author/Editor: Hibiki Ichiue, Frederic Lambert. Release Date:April, 2016 Foreign bank lending has stopped growing since the global financial crisis. Changes in
banks’ business models, balance-sheet adjustments, as well as the tightening of banking
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| The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness Author/Editor: Frederic Lambert, Kenichi Ueda. Release Date:August, 2014 Unconventional monetary policy is often assumed to benefit banks. However, we find little supporting evidence. Rather, we find some evidence for heightened medium-term risks. First, in an event study more...
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