Documentos e Relatórios
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics experimental evidence from Sri Lanka (Inglês)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics experimental evidence from Sri Lanka, conducted during...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81205 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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Collateral registries for movable assets : does their introduction spur firms' access to bank finance ? (Inglês)
Using firm-level surveys for up to 73 countries, this paper explores the impact of introducing collateral registries for movable assets on firms' access to bank finance. It compares firms' access to bank...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6477 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Love,Inessa,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Singh,Sandeep
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Incentive audits : a new approach to financial regulation (Inglês)
A large body of evidence points to misaligned incentives as having a key role in the run-up to the global financial crisis. These include bank managers' incentives to boost short-term profits and create...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6308 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cihak,Martin,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Johnston, R. Barry
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Bank regulation and supervision around the world : a crisis update (Inglês)
This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two questions. First, were there significant differences in regulation and supervision between...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6286 Data do documento: 1 de dezembro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cihak,Martin,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Mohseni-Cheraghlou,Amin
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How does deposit insurance affect bank risk ? evidence from the recent crisis (Inglês)
Deposit insurance is widely offered in a number of countries as part of a financial system safety net to promote stability. An unintended consequence of deposit insurance is the reduction in the incentive...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6289 Data do documento: 1 de dezembro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Zhu, Min
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Bank ownership and lending patterns during the 2008-2009 financial crisis : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe (Inglês)
This paper examines the impact of bank ownership on credit growth in developing countries before and during the 2008-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6195 Data do documento: 1 de setembro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cull,Robert J.,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad
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How bank competition affects firms' access to finance (Inglês)
Combining multi-year, firm-level surveys with country-level panel data for 53 countries, the authors explore the impact of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6163 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Love,Inessa,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka (Inglês)
The authors conduct a randomized experiment among women in urban Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6145 Data do documento: 1 de julho de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: De Mel,Suresh,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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Bank ownership and credit over the business cycle : is lending by state banks less procyclical? (Inglês)
This paper finds that lending by state banks is less procyclical than lending by private banks, especially in countries with good governance. Lending by state banks in high-income countries is even countercyclical...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6110 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bertay,Ata Can,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Huizinga,Harry P.
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Financial inclusion in Africa : an overview (Inglês)
This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6088 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Klapper,Leora
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Financial literacy around the world : an overview of the evidence with practical suggestions for the way forward (Inglês)
Financial literacy programs are fast becoming a key ingredient in financial policy reform worldwide. Yet, what is financial literacy exactly and what do we know of its effectiveness? This paper collects...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6107 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Xu,Lisa Lynn,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Financing of firms in developing countries : lessons from research (Inglês)
This paper reviews and synthesizes theoretical and empirical research on the role of finance in developing countries. First, the paper presents the stylized facts about firms in developing nations as well...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6036 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ayyagari,Meghana,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Maksimovic,Vojislav
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market :evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (Inglês)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6041 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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External finance and firm survival in the aftermath of the crisis : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Inglês)
Two data sets are used to study how country and firm characteristics affected firms' financial constraints and their likelihood of survival during the early phase of the recent global financial crisis...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6050 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Clarke,George R.,Cull,Robert J.,Kisunko,Gregory
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How accurate are recall data ? evidence from coastal India (Inglês)
This paper investigates the accuracy of recall data by comparing administrative records with retrospective, self-reported survey responses to income and asset questions for a sample of self-employed households...
No. do relatório: WPS6009 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Gine,Xavier,De Nicola,Francesca
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How does bank competition affect systemic stability ? (Inglês)
Using bank level measures of competition and co-dependence, the authors show a robust positive relationship between bank competition and systemic stability. Whereas much of the extant literature has focused...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5981 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Zhu, Min
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A tale of two species : revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico (Inglês)
Different views have been put forward to explain why most firms in developing countries operate informally. One view argues that informal-business owners are entrepreneurs who do not register their firm...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5971 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bruhn,Miriam
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Has the global banking system become more fragile over time ? (Inglês)
This paper examines time-series and cross-country variations in default risk co-dependence in the global banking system. The authors construct a default risk measure for all publicly traded banks using...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5849 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli
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Patterns of business creation, survival and growth : evidence from Africa (Inglês)
The authors study firm dynamics using a novel database of all formally registered firms in Cote d'Ivoire from 1977 to 1997, which account for about 60 percent of gross domestic product. First, they examine...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5828 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Klapper,Leora,Richmond,Christine J.
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Financial literacy and retirement planning : the Russian case (Inglês)
The authors examine the association of financial literacy with retirement planning in Russia, a country with a relatively old and rapidly aging population, large regional disparities, and a rapidly emerging...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5827 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Klapper,Leora,Panos,Georgios A.