Finance for development : Latin America in comparative perspective /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Finance for development: issues and trends
- Finance within a new development model in Latin America
- Latin America's financial sector today: stylized facts
- Substantive and methodological contributions
- Overview of the book
- Changes in Latin America's financial system since 1990: comparisons with East Asia
- Financial liberalization, crisis, and the aftermath
- Financial liberalization: literature and hypotheses
- Financial liberalization: empirical trends
- Financial liberalization and crisis
- Rescue programs: costs and outcomes
- Conclusions
- Changes in ownership: public, private, and foreign banks
- Bank ownership and institutional environment: literature and hypotheses
- Trends in bank ownership
- Ownership and performance
- Ownership, institutions, and performance
- Conclusions
- Toward stability: regulation, supervision, and the macroeconomic context
- Regulation and supervision: literature and hypotheses
- Regulation and supervision: the state of the art
- Regulation, supervision, and financial performance
- Conclusions
- From banks to capital markets: new sources of finance
- Capital market performance: literature and hypotheses
- Comparing financial market trends across regions
- Analysis of financial market trends
- Conclusions
- The impact of the new financial system on investment and access in Latin America
- Chile: mixed ownership provides a new model
- Liberalization, crisis, and response
- Changes in structure
- Finance, investment, and growth
- Access to finance for small firms
- Conclusions
- Mexico: foreign banks assume control
- Liberalization, crises, and response
- Changes in structure
- Finance, investment, and growth
- Access to finance for small firms
- Conclusions
- Brazil: public banks continue to play a key role
- Liberalization, crises, and response
- Changes in structure
- Finance, investment, and growth
- Access to credit by small firms
- Conclusions
- Policy recommendations for a stronger financial system
- A policy agenda for the financial sector
- Banks and capital markets since 1990
- Toward a policy agenda on finance
- Final comments.