How do businessmen counteract credit constraints when the financial market does not provide adequate external financing? Based on novel primary corporate data, network techniques and regression analysis, we explore the role of interlocking directorates with banks as a way for companies to face...

This is the last version available of this document. One of the salient features of Chile as compared to other economies in the region is the outstanding pattern of economic growth the country experienced during the last two decades. From 1990 to 2005 Chile's GDP expanded at an annual average...