Defusing default
Subtitle: incentives and institutions
By: Marco Pagano, editor.
Contributors: Pagano, Marco.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Dept.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Credit control -- Latin America; Default (Finance) -- Latin America -- Case studies; Debtor and creditor -- Latin America; Consumer credit -- Latin America; Bankruptcy -- Latin America
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-366).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The costs and benefits of protecting creditor rights: theory and evidence / Atilano Jorge Padilla and Alejandro Requejo; title: Information sharing in credit markets: theory and evidence / Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano; title: The political economy of debt moratoria, bailouts and bankruptcy / Patrick Bolton and Howard Rosenthal; title: The importance of an effective legal system for credit markets: the case of Argentina / Marcela Cristini, Ramiro A. Moya and Andrew Powell; title: Credit markets in Brazil: the role of judicial enforcement and other institutions / Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Célia Cabral; title: Why borrowers repay: understanding high performance in Chile's financial market / J. Rodrigo Fuentes and Carlos P. Maquieira; title: Enforcement, contract design and default: exploring the financial markets of Costa Rica / Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Javier Cascante and Luis J. Hall; title: Ensuring willingness to repay in Paraguay / St'ephane Staub and Horacio Sosa; title: Growing indebtedness, intitutional change and credit contracts in Peru / Carolina Trivelli, Javier Alvarado and Francisco Galarza; title: Bibliography.