• Access to Financing of SMEs in Argentina 

      Pasquini, Ricardo; De Giovanni, Martín (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      In this paper, we examine SMEs in Argentina in search for a measurement of those who are credit constrained. We also estimate a model for the determinants of credit rejection taking into account those that are self-excluded. ...
    • Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia 

      Álvarez, Fernando; Meléndez, Marcela (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      This paper uses a dataset of a survey of Colombian micro firms from 2003 to 2007 in combination with data from publicly available sources about banking services supply at the municipality level, to assess the impact of the ...
    • Credit Constraints for Higher Education 

      Solis, Alex (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This paper addresses the importance of credit constraints explaining the gap on college enrollment between students coming from rich and poor families. Measuring the effect of credit constraints on college enrollment is ...
    • Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data 

      Galindo, Arturo; Micco, Alejandro (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      Using a survey of firms in 61 countries around the world (WBES) and econometric techniques that allow us to deal with observed and unobserved country specific components as well as with partial endogeneity, we explore the ...