2006
DOI: 10.3386/w12252
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Judicial Risk and Credit Market Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazilian Payroll Loans

Abstract: Costa would like to stress that opinions expressed here are solely hers, and do not reflect any official position of the Brazilian Central Bank. Authors would like to thank Cornélio Pimentel, Daniel Sanchez and Plinio Romanini from DESIG/BCB for sharing the data. Johan Albino shared important informations about judicial disputes over payroll lending. We would also like to thank Tony Takeda, Marcelo de Paiva Abreu, Renato Flôres, Benny Parnes, and participants at the IASE-NBER conference for comments and sugges… Show more

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“…In December 2004, personal loans already represented the largest share of bank loans, with a larger share even than industrial credit (Costa & Mello, 2006).…”
Section: Evolution Of Personal Credit In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In December 2004, personal loans already represented the largest share of bank loans, with a larger share even than industrial credit (Costa & Mello, 2006).…”
Section: Evolution Of Personal Credit In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, crime would increase the marginal bene…t of savings. As the Brazilian credit market is underdeveloped, household savings represents the primary means for individuals to relocate their place of residence (for an overview of the Brazilian credit market, see Costa and De Mello, 2006).…”
Section: Crime and Relocationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tables 2.12 to 2.14 present second stage results, while first stage results are equivalent to the reduced-form regression in which the dependent variable is the instrumented variable. 11 We find that a 1% increase in the number of sentences leads to a 0.95% decrease in homicide rates, a slightly larger absolute value than the OLS coefficient. This estimate is significant at the 5% level for bandwidths equal to 40% or lower and similar, but is not significant at the 5% level for the other bandwidths.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…(5) and (4) argue that the improvement of judicial system affects firm size and performance. (9) and (10) show that it stimulates entrepreneurship and (11) show that it stimulates the credit market performance. Furthermore, (12); (13) demonstrate that the certainty of punishment can reduce crimes in Latin America.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%