Lengthening Financial Contracts in Africa
Samuel MaimboEditor’s Note: This is the third in a series of posts that preview the findings of the forthcoming Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond regional flagship report, a comprehensive...
View ArticleSafeguarding Africa's Financial Systems: Learning the right lessons from the...
Samuel MaimboEditor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts that preview the findings of the forthcoming Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond regional flagship report, a...
View ArticleHow to Deepen Financial Systems in Africa: All financial sector policy is local
Samuel MaimboEditor’s Note: This is the fifth and final contribution in a series of posts that preview the findings of the forthcoming Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond regional flagship...
View ArticleThe Future of Banking
For better or worse, banking is back in the headlines. From the desperate efforts of crisis-struck Eurozone governments to the Occupy Wall Street movement currently spreading across the globe, the...
View ArticleDisentangling Sovereign and Banking Crises in Europe – Long-term Reform...
Daniel GrosDirk SchoenmakerMost observers have realized by now that a core problem of the Eurocrisis is the close interconnection between banking and sovereign fragility. The ongoing sovereign debt...
View ArticleForeigners vs. Natives: Bank Lending Technologies and Loan Pricing
The past two decades have seen a large increase in foreign bank entry across the globe, a trend that has been especially strong in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in Latin...
View ArticleBanking Union for Europe – Risks and Challenges
The Eurozone crisis has gone through its fair share of buzz words — fiscal compact, growth compact, Big Bazooka. The latest kid on the block is the banking union. Although it has been discussed by...
View ArticleFinancial Innovation: The Bright and the Dark Sides
The Global Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009 has spurred renewed widespread debates on the “bright” and “dark” sides of financial innovation. The traditional innovation-growth view posits that...
View ArticleCyprus: Some Early Lessons
The crisis is Cyprus is still unfolding and the final resolution might still have some way to go, but the events in Nicosia and Brussels already offer some first lessons. And these lessons look...
View ArticleSex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in Lending?
Group identity in the form of family, ethnicity, or gender is a powerful predictor of social preferences, as shown by theory and empirical work. In particular, people generally favor in-group over...
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