Americas Office research papers - last 2 years

Includes papers by the BIS CCA (Consultative Council for the Americas) and the BIS Economics for Latin America and the Caribbean (ELAC) group. Other papers presented in BIS CCA Research Conferences can be found on the respective conference websites.

Date Titles
Dec 2020
Enabling open finance through APIs

Report by the Consultative Group on Innovation and the Digital Economy (CGIDE) established at the BIS Representative Office for the Americas
Nov 2020
The dawn of fintech in Latin America: landscape, prospects and challenges

by Carlos Cantú and Barbara Ulloa

Sep 2020
Retailer markup and exchange rate pass-through: Evidence from the Mexican CPI micro data

by Fernando Pérez-Cervantes

Sep 2020
Inflation at risk in advanced and emerging market economies

by Ryan Niladri Banerjee, Juan Contreras, Aaron Mehrotra and Fabrizio Zampolli

Aug 2020
Corporate dollar debt and depreciations: all's well that ends well?

by Julián Caballero

Aug 2020
Export survival and foreign financing

by Laura D'Amato, Máximo Sangiácomo and Martin Tobal

Aug 2020
Government Banks, Household Debt, and Economic Downturns: The Case of Brazil

by Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi

Aug 2020
The impact of credit risk mispricing on mortgage lending during the subprime boom

by James A Kahn and Benjamin S Kay

Aug 2020
Demographic Origins of the Decline in Labor's Share

by Andrew Glover and Jacob Short

Feb 2020
Stress testing in Latin America: A comparison of approaches and methodologies

Jul 2019
Determinants of credit growth and the bank-lending channel in Peru: A loan level analysis

by José Bustamante, Walter Cuba and Rafael Nivin

Jul 2019
A loan-level analysis of bank lending in Mexico

by Carlos Cantú, Roberto Lobato, Calixto López and Fabrizio Lopez-Gallo

Jul 2019
The internationalization of domestic banks and the credit channel: an empirical assessment

by Paola Morales, Daniel Osorio and Juan Sebastian Lemus-Esquivel

Jul 2019
Banks' business model and credit supply in Chile: the role of a state-owned bank

by Miguel Biron, Felipe Córdova and Antonio Lemus

Jul 2019
Monetary policy surprises and employment: evidence from matched bank-firm loan data on the bank lending-channel

by Rodrigo Barbone Gonzalez

Jul 2019
How do bank-specific characteristics affect lending? New evidence based on credit registry data from Latin America

by Carlos Cantú, Stijn Claessens and Leonardo Gambacorta

Jun 2019
Industry heterogeneity and exchange rate pass-through

by Camila Casas

Jun 2019
Estimating the effect of exchange rate changes on total exports

by Thierry Mayer and Walter Steingress

Jun 2019
Effects of a mandatory local currency pricing law on the exchange rate pass-through

by Renzo Castellares and Hiroshi Toma

Jun 2019
Import prices and invoice currency: evidence from Chile

by Fernando Giuliano and Emiliano Luttini

Apr 2019
New information and inflation expectations among firms

by Serafin Frache and Rodrigo Lluberas

Apr 2019
Can regulation on loan-loss-provisions for credit risk affect the mortgage market? Evidence from administrative data in Chile

by Mauricio Calani

Apr 2019
Does informality facilitate inflation stability?

by Enrique Alberola-Ila and Carlos Urrutia