2019
DOI: 10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2019.1.1
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Financial Deepening in Mexico

Abstract: International comparisons reveal that -even controlling for a host of explanatory factorscredit depth is exceptionally low in Mexico. Using panel data methods linking credit growth and fundamentals, this paper estimates a long-term gap between actual and expected credit of about 40 percent of GDP. Possible explanations include the history of banking crises, the large informal sector and an inefficient legal system. Using a disequilibrium regression approach, this paper also finds that supply factors are partic… Show more

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“…The 1990s will go down in history as a period of systemic financial crises for emerging economies. Latin American countries were first to be hit, following the 1994 Mexican peso crisis and its impact on other emerging markets (Herman and Klemm, 2019). This was followed by other crises that reverberated across emerging economies in Western Europe, East Asia and South-East Asia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 1990s will go down in history as a period of systemic financial crises for emerging economies. Latin American countries were first to be hit, following the 1994 Mexican peso crisis and its impact on other emerging markets (Herman and Klemm, 2019). This was followed by other crises that reverberated across emerging economies in Western Europe, East Asia and South-East Asia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%