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Defusing default : incentives and institutions /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Pagano, Marco
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Default (Finance) > Latin America > Case studies.
Debtor and creditors > Latin America.
Consumer credit > Latin America.
Bankruptcy > Latin America.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The costs and benefits of protecting creditor rights: theory and evidence / Atilano Jorge Padilla and Alejandro Requejo
  • Information sharing in credit markets: theory and evidence / Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano
  • The political economy of debt moratoria, bailouts and bankruptcy / Patrick Bolton and Howard Rosenthal
  • The importance of an effective legal system for credit markets: the case of Argentina / Marcela Cristini, Ramiro A. Moya and Andrew Powell
  • Credit markets in Brazil: the role of judicial enforcement and other institutions / Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Célia Cabral
  • Why borrowers repay: understanding high performance in Chile's financial market / J. Rodrigo Fuentes and Carlos P. Maquieira
  • Enforcement, contract design and default: exploring the financial markets of Costa Rica / Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Javier Cascante and Luis J. Hall
  • Ensuring willingness to repay in Paraguay / St'ephane Staub and Horacio Sosa
  • Growing indebtedness, intitutional change and credit contracts in Peru / Carolina Trivelli, Javier Alvarado and Francisco Galarza
  • Bibliography.