Finance for development : Latin America in comparative perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stallings, Barbara
Corporate Authors: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Studart, Rogério, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2006]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.