This paper constructs and index of regulatory quality for improving financial inclusion for the purpose of assessing and comparing the quality of rules and regulations in a sample of eight Latin American countries. The index comprises 11 regulatory practices classified into three categories:...

Spanish Abstract: En el marco conmemorativo de la dictación del Código de Comercio chileno, de 1865, resulta interesante revisar cómo nuestro actual modelo regulatorio es consecuencia de un desarrollo histórico que se inicia con el fomento del liberalismo económico en el siglo XIX, se...

This paper constructs an index of regulatory quality for improving financial inclusion for the purpose of assessing and comparing the quality of rules and regulations in a sample of eight Latin American countries. The index comprises 11 regulatory practices classified into three categories:...

The significant expansion of the Colombian open economy during the first thirty years of the century originated on the expansion of the coffee industry, the Panama Reparation, the increase of foreign direct investment and credit obtained abroad. From 1925-1929 alone coffee revenues represented...

The political class at the turn of the century opposed to the creation of a Central Bank, responding to the argument that government credit control should not surpass what they considered a rational action. Onwards and not exempted of bloodshed the parties? political proposal included the...

This piece develops, in the form of a discussion of alternative labor-law regimes, a thesis about the importance of enlarging the existing repertory of institutional arrangements for the organization of different areas of social life. Law and legal analysis form the terrain on which such...

The study assesses whether incorporating macroeconomic variables and characteristics of the credit portfolio improves the specification of models designed to identify management discretion in making loan loss provisions by banks, considering the norms issued by regulatory agencies. The empirical...

Despite prior waves of privatization around the world, state ownership of enterprise remains significant. The focus of scholars and policymakers has accordingly shifted from the defense and promotion of privatization to the design and improvement of corporate governance practices in state-owned...

The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...

This study examines voluntary intellectual capital reporting (ICR) in annual reports of the top 30 companies listed in Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange (CASE) as well as eliciting the barriers that could hamper the development and implementation of ICR in an Egyptian setting. The study...