This study examines a troubling phenomenon occurring recently in several Latin American economies: a marked slowdown in bank credit to the private sector. Based on the study of five countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico), we first document the magnitude of the problem, asking how severe and prolonged has the slowdown been and how this behavior compare with the past? Second, ...

It has been contended by many in the central banking community that monetary policy would not be effective in “leaning” against the upswing of a credit cycle (the boom) but that lower interest rates would be effective in “cleaning” up (the bust) afterwards. In this paper, these two propositions (can’t lean, but can clean) are examined and found seriously deficient. In particular, it is contende...

This paper analyzes the association between aggregate default and recovery rates on credit assets, and seeks to empirically explain this critical relationship. We examine recovery rates on corporate bond defaults, over the period 1982-2002. Our econometric univariate and multivariate models explain a significant portion of the variance in bond recovery rates aggregated across all seniority and ...

The point has often been made that institutional arrangements are important in determining the way in which money is created and the effects that it has. The most recent phases of institutional development have been currently identified with liability management and off-balance-sheet activity. This paper argues that more recent changes, only some of them associated with the practice of banks’ b...

This study addresses the counterintuitive result produced by the Duffie and Lando (2001) incomplete information model by remodelling its asset density function with added positive bias. We call this new model biased information model. The theory is then applied to study the effect of fiscal opacity on the levels and term structure of sovereign credit spreads. We make use of new panel datasets s...

99 Abstract— In this proposed research, we developed a deterministic inventory model for price dependent demand with time varying holding cost and trade credit under deteriorating environment, supplier offers a credit limit to the customer during whom there is no interest charged, but upon the expiry of the prescribed time limit, the supplier will charge some interest. However, the customer has...