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This paper explores the links between labor formality, access to credit and firm performance in Colombia using Annual Manufacturing Survey data for the period 2000-2009. A significant though small relationship is found between access to credit and informality. The results suggest that a 10...
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Credit has been found to be a catalyst for economic growth, as it spurs investment, enhances productivity, allows costs to be spread out over time, improves resource allocation, and enables investors to cope better with macroeconomic volatility. Most studies focus on the relationship between...
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( Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se demuestra que los déficit presupuestarios constituyen una porción relativamente pequeña del crecimiento de la deuda y que la conciliación entre las existencias y los flujos, que a menudo se considera una entidad residual, es uno...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) ¿Ha mejorado la apertura financiera la eficiencia con la que se distribuyen los fondos de inversión a los usuarios que compiten por ellos? En este trabajo estudiamos esta cuestión empleando datos de panel al nivel de empresa correspondientes a 12...
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This paper exploits a rich collection of household surveys to investigate the wage differential between the public and private sectors in 17 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The paper also studies how the sector of employment affects the gender wage gap. The paper finds very...
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We develop a model in which the elasticity of credit to exogenous shocks depends on creditor rights regulations. We show that an increase in creditor protection reduces the elasticity of credit supply to exogenous shocks, and hence the amplitude of the credit cycle. Using an extended set of a...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se analiza si la propiedad de la banca (pública vs. privada, nacional vs. extranjera) guarda alguna relación con las prácticas crediticias de los bancos a lo largo del ciclo económico. Se halla que los bancos propiedad del Estado...
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This paper tests whether Rodrik`s (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. We measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este documento se revisa la obra publicada teórica y empírica sobre el papel de los bancos propiedad del Estado y también se presentan algunos resultados nuevos y un análisis de validez. Se muestra que la banca propiedad del Estado de países en...
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
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