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Thematic Index

Market discipline:
banks’ responses to depositors, 111-112
Basel II pillar on, 227-228
costs and benefits of, 108-109
and deposit insurance, 111
empirical evidence in Latin America of, 110, 116
financial instability and, 109box
and macroeconomic shocks, 108
policies for enhancement of, 112-114
supervisory discipline vs., 20, 107-108, 112
Market failures, 60-62
Materiality, 239
Materials Bank (Peru), 216
Maturity mismatch, 213, 219
Mexico:
bank runs, 109box
banking crisis resolution, 72box, 73-77, 79, 82
credit registries, 179
crisis (1994), 65
deposit insurance, 103-104
financial dollarization, 49, 51, 65
foreign banks, 119, 129, 132box, 133, 136
housing finance, 210, 218-222
invoice discounting, 198, 199box
money laundering, 244
public debt and deficit, 18fig
small and medium enterprises, 187, 190
state-owned banks, 147-149, 152. See also Tequila crisis
Microfinance, 191
Minimum variance portfolio (MVP) model, 58-60, 62
Monetary policy:
banks as transmission belt for, 142-143
and financial dollarization, 62-64
inflation, 53-54
for sudden stops, 47
Money laundering:
advances against, 251
banking system weaknesses and, 246
challenges for, 252
corporate governance’s quality and, 247-248
and corruption, 243
defined, 241
determinants of, 244, 246, 248, 253-256
development of capital markets, 246-247
economic distortion through, 242
efforts against, 249-251
financial integrity and reputation risk, 242
government institutions’ quality and, 247
government resources affected by, 242
in Latin America, 243-244, 251-252
as percentage of GDP, 25
pervasiveness of, 244fig
steps for, 241
and terrorism finance, 245box
underground economy and, 244, 247
Moral hazard:
as cause of banking crises, 14, 32-33, 39
collateral used for reduction of, 167
credit booms and, 33
defined, 10
deposit insurance and, 33, 88-89, 100
and financial safety nets, 19
with fixed exchange rates, 42
information asymmetry and, 175, 194
regulations for prevention of, 85, 88
Mortgage trusts, 218
Mortgages, 164. See also Housing finance in Latin America
Movable assets, 164, 192
Mundell-Fleming effects, 51, 62

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