Households’ use of long-term finance
This post is part of a series highlighting the key findings of the Global Financial Development Report 2015 | 2016: Long-Term Finance. You can view the entire series at gfdr2015. The second part of...
View ArticleWhich markets provide long-term finance?
This post is part of a series highlighting the key findings of the Global Financial Development Report 2015 | 2016: Long-Term Finance. You can view the entire series at gfdr2015. Many governments are...
View ArticleWhich financial intermediaries provide long-term finance?
This post is part of a series highlighting the key findings of the Global Financial Development Report 2015 | 2016: Long-Term Finance. You can view the entire series at gfdr2015. Policy makers debate...
View ArticleLaunching the 2014 Global Findex microdata
I am pleased to announce the release of the 2014 Global Findex microdata, which includes individual-level responses from almost 150,000 adults around the world. You can download it all here. Drawing...
View ArticleThe determinants of long-term versus short-term bank credit in EU countries
In a new background paper prepared for the 2015/2016 Global Financial Development Report on Long-Term Finance, Haelim Park, Thierry Tressel and Claudia Ruiz analyze the growth of bank credit to firms...
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Eighteenth annual international banking conference: The future of large,...
On November 5–6, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago hosted its annual International Banking Conference, which we at the Bank co-sponsored. This year’s topic “The Future of Large, Internationally...
View ArticleThe impact of the global financial crisis on the use of long-term finance
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, there were heightened concerns that a reduced availability of long-term finance and the resulting rollover risks would adversely affect the performance...
View ArticleDo securities trading by banks crowd out lending to the real sector?
In “Securities Trading by Banks and Credit Supply: Micro-Evidence”, we explore the effects of the financial crisis on securities trading by commercial banks and the subsequent effect of the latter in...
View ArticleLeveraging urbanization to fund sustainable development and financial inclusion
Urbanization, when combined with innovations in payments technologies (virtual and complementary currencies), provides an opportunity to finance sustainable city development funds and achieve...
View ArticleThe political economy of bank lending: evidence from an emerging market
Our paper studies the existence of political rents in bank lending in Mexico. Unlike prior studies examining political rent seeking in public sector banks, we focus on an economy with a fully...
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