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A New Database of Financial Reforms

• Enrica Detragiache, Abdul d Abiad, Thierry Tressel
• 2008

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used… (More)

Finance in Lower-Income Countries: An Empirical Exploration

• Enrica Detragiache, Poonam Gupta, Thierry Tressel
• 2005

This paper considers how a comprehensive set of factors relates to financial sector performance in low-income countries (LICs). It finds that corruption and inflation are associated with a shallower… (More)

Foreign Banks in Poor Countries; Theory and Evidence

• Enrica Detragiache, Poonam Gupta, Thierry Tressel
• 2006

We study how foreign bank penetration affects financial sector development in poor countries. A theoretical model shows that when foreign banks are better at monitoring highend customers than… (More)

Do Financial Sector Reforms Lead to Financial Development? Evidence from a New Dataset

• Thierry Tressel, Enrica Detragiache
• 2008

This paper studies whether the policies that, over the past decades, liberalized banking systems around the world have resulted in deeper credit markets. To measure banking sector reforms we use a… (More)