El artículo expone los beneficios económicos derivados del espacio de financiamiento disponible para la población de menores ingresos en el país. Además, muestra las distintas interpretaciones prácticas acerca de las posibilidades reales del microcrédito como herramienta para el...

RESUMENEl concepto de bancarización tiendea relacionarse con el acceso de losagentes económicos al crédito. Sinembargo, se trata de un concepto másamplio que hace referencia al accesoa todos los servicios financieros disponibles.La bancarización es a suvez una herramienta clave para...

We study whether R&D-intensive firms are liquidity-constrained, by also modeling their antecedent decision to apply for credit. This sample selection issue is relevant when studying a borrower-lender relationship, as the same factors can influence the decisions of both parties. We find firms...

Lo scopo principale del presente Quaderno di ricerca e' quello di ritagliare l'esatto posto, per importanza e contenuto, che le teorie del circuito monetario occupano all'interno del pensiero economico. Spesse volte esaltate, nell'illusione di essere giunti davanti a paradigmi di equilibrio...

This paper studies the role of credit market development in an economy with credit frictions. I examine how the provision of credit in connection with collateral assets affects both economic performance and business cycle volatility. First, I analyse the macroeconomic implications of an...

In order to gain more insight into the relationship between housing prices and mortgage lending, we estimate models for both the Dutch housing and the mortgage market. The empirical analysis presented in this paper offers support for the hypothesis that in the Netherlands housing prices and...

The critical causes of the risk-averse behaviour of banks in funding Small and Medium Enterprises ( SMEs) in Nigeria, monetary policy and financial stability implications of SMEs “Credit Crunch” were evaluated. This was done along the lines of inadequate capital base of the institutions in...

We analyze the impact of the countercyclical capital buffers held by banks on the supply of credit to firms and their subsequent performance. Countercyclical ‘‘dynamic’’ provisioning that is unrelated to specific loan losses was introduced in Spain in 2000, and modified...

What are the stylized facts that characterize the dynamics of credit booms and the associated fluctuations in macro-economic aggregates? This paper answers this question by applying a method proposed in our earlier work for measuring and identifying credit booms to data for 61 emerging and...