We document the resilience of Euro zone bank deposits during past stress episodes. There is only one major Euro zone economy - Greece - where deposit
The World Bank recently released their Global Findex 2017, which updates their comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and m
We recently estimated an annual financing need around $15 bn for Argentina, on benign assumptions for the current account, debt rollover and capita
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Innovative financial institutions are integrating features that help build financial capability into their product design-and both banks and their cus
The EM sell-off has been large for Argentina and Turkey, which raises the risk of contagion to the broader EM complex. We examine non-resident port
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