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Didier, Tatiana

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Last updated: February 1, 2023
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Tatiana Didier is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2008. She has published in the area of international economics. She is currently doing research on international trade and finance, One area of interest is the dynamics of trade and capital flows and the implications for economic growth and development. She is also doing research on the international finance more specifically with a focus on international capital flows, the role of institutional investors, financial crises, and their implications for the development of domestic financial systems.
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    The Changing Patterns of Financial Integration in Latin America
    (World Bank Group, Washington, DC, 2015-02) Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L.
    This paper describes how Latin America and the Caribbean has been integrating financially with countries in the North and South since the 2000s. The paper shows that the region is increasingly more connected with the rest of the world, even relative to gross domestic product. The region's connections with South countries have been growing faster than with North countries, especially during the second half of the 2000s. Nevertheless, North countries continue to be the region's principal source and receiver of flows. The changes reflect significant increases in portfolio investments, syndicated loans, and mergers and acquisitions. Growth of greenfield investments has been more subdued after the initial high level. Greenfield investments in the region have been in sectors in which the source country has a comparative advantage, not where the receiver country has an advantage. Mergers and acquisitions have been in sectors in which the receiver country has a comparative advantage.
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    Inequality in a Lower Growth Latin America : LAC Semiannual Report, October 2014
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2014-10-10) de la Torre, Augusto; Beylis, Guillermo; Didier, Tatiana; Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Schmukler, Sergio L.
    As usual in this series, Chapter 1 reviews the configuration of global risks and assesses the outstanding short term opportunities and challenges facing the LAC region. We document the significant slowdown in economic activity across the region, and explore the possibility of this being the ‘new normal’. In Chapter 2 we assess if the major social gains achieved during the ‘Golden Decade’, in particular the decline in inequality, will hold in this less supportive environment, and discuss alternative policy responses to preserve and further the equity gains in the region.
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    Latin America and the Rising South: Changing World, Changing Priorities
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2015-05-19) de la Torre, Augusto; Didier, Tatiana; Ize, Alain; Lederman, Daniel; Schmukler, Sergio L.
    The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need to go beyond this North-South dichotomy. This tectonic re-configuration of the global landscape has brought about significant changes to countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. The time is ripe for an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and nature of LAC's external connections. This latest volume in the World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies series will focus on the implications of these trends for the economic development of LAC countries. In particular, trade, financial, macroeconomic, and sectoral shifts, as well as labor-market aspects will be systematically analyzed.
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    Severity of the Crisis and its Transmission Channels
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009-12) Calderon, Cesar; Didier, Tatiana
    The current global crisis, although initially circumscribed to the US housing market, spread rapidly across markets and borders. It has affected almost all countries through different reinforcing channels: the contraction in international trade, capital flows, remittances, and international commodity prices. The main goal of this note is to empirically analyze the mechanisms through which the financial crisis of 2007-2009 propagated throughout the world by characterizing the main factors behind the fall in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates. The findings indicate that a greater decline in the growth rate was registered in countries with higher de facto trade openness, less resilient domestic financial markets, and, to a lesser extent, improved macroeconomic frameworks. To complement this evidence, we construct an aggregate index of the severity of the crisis that captures the real and financial consequences in each country of this unprecedented global financial shock.
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    Emerging Issues in Financial Development : Lessons from Latin America
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2014) Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Ceballos, Francisco; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; Freyen, Erik; Ize, Alain; Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo; Williams, Tomás; Raddatz, Claudio; Anginer, Deniz; de la Torre, Augusto; Heysen, Socorro; Auqui, Martín; Calderón, César; Servén, Luis; Seelig, Steven A.; D’Hulster, Katia; Cortés, Mariano; Dijkman, Miguel; Gutierrez, Eva
    Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America has been one of the regions at the forefront of these changes and offers a good laboratory of where the challenges in financial development lie. Despite all the gains in financial development, there is still a nagging contrast between the intensity of financial sector reforms implemented over the past 20 years in many countries and the actual size and depth of their financial systems. In the case of Latin America, in many respects it remains underdeveloped by international comparisons. This book studies in detail the recent history of financial sector development and reforms in Latin America, in comparison to other developing and developed countries, to shed light on the key obstacles for financial development. Rather than going in detail into sector-specific issues, the book focuses on the main architectural issues, overall perspectives, and interconnections. Its value added thus hinges on its holistic view of the development process, its broad coverage of the financial services industry (not just banking), its emphasis on comparisons and benchmarking, its systemic perspective, and its explicit effort to incorporate the lessons from the recent global financial crisis. The book is divided into three main parts. The first presents a stock taking exercise to ascertain where Latin America’s financial development lies—analyzing in more detail some of the reasons and policy implications underlying its banking depth and equity liquidity gaps. The second part revisits two themes that are central to the region’s financial development: long-term finance and the role of the state in risk bearing. The last part of the book deals with issues of regulation and supervision, first taking stock of the progress in the region and then analyzing the challenges faced by Latin America as regards three main facets of systemic oversight: macro-prudential policy, micro-systemic regulation, and systemic supervision. The chapters in this book yield many lessons and raise several issues, constituting an invaluable read for practitioners, policymakers, experts, and students alike in both developed and developing countries.
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    Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean : Stylized Facts and the Road Ahead
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013-08) Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L.
    The paper documents the major trends in financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 1990s. The paper compares trends in Latin America and the Caribbean with those in Asia, Eastern Europe, and advanced countries and compares countries within Latin America and the Caribbean. The findings show that financial systems in the Latin America and the Caribbean region have become more diversified and more complex. In particular, domestic financial systems have become less bank-based, with bond and stock markets playing a larger role; institutional investors have gained some space in channeling domestic savings, thus increasing the availability of funds for investment in capital markets; and several economies in the region have started to reduce currency and maturity mismatches. Nonetheless, a few large companies continue to capture most of the domestic savings. And because these trends have unfolded more slowly than pro-market reformers had envisioned, broad, market-based financial systems with dispersed ownership have yet to materialize fully in the region. As a result, convergence is still largely failing to happen and the region's financial systems remain less developed than those of the advanced economies and several other emerging economies, most notably those in Asia.
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    Patterns of Financing During Periods of High Risk Aversion : How Have Latin Firms Fared in this Crisis So Far?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009-05) Didier, Tatiana
    This note examines the extent to which firms in Latin America have been able to raise capital through debt and equity securities as well as syndicated loans, both abroad and domestically, since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis. The public and the private sectors alike lost access to foreign sources of financing during the height of the turbulence. Furthermore, two months after the Lehman Brothers' collapse, only government owned firms and governments themselves were able to re-enter international markets to some extent and raise capital. Thus, the evidence suggests an important role for government guarantees in attracting foreign investors in times of high risk aversion. In domestic and syndicated loan markets, there has been a marked decrease in the total amount raised, although they have remained a viable option for the private sector in Latin America. To the extent possible, non-government borrowers have been able to raise capital in these markets and have generally met their rollover needs. In contrast, the role of sovereign guarantees in attracting local investors seems to have been more important in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, where government entities have accounted for respectively 80 and 44 percent of all new issues in local markets, compared to less than 15 percent in LAC.
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    Will FDI be Resilient in this Crisis?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009-01) Calderon, Cesar; Didier, Tatiana
    Although foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have tended to remain resilient during previous crises, they may not behave in a similar fashion during the current crisis. Why? In past crises, the stability of FDI flows was significantly associated with an increase in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), reflecting 'fire-sale FDI'. In the present crisis, by contrast, M&A activity decreased significantly in the last quarter of 2008, and this trend may continue as long as the global crisis constrain the purchasing ability of foreign (acquiring) firms. These developments further illustrate that the nature of the current crisis differs considerably from previous ones, suggesting that certain key lessons from past crisis lessons might not apply in the current context.
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    Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014-04) de la Torre, Augusto; Didier, Tatiana
    This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration as well as the aggregate demand structures (domestic demand-driven versus external demand-driven) that underpin the globalization process. It finds that Latin America is mitigating some bad side effects of financial globalization by moving toward a safer form of international financial integration and improving its macro-financial policy frameworks. Nonetheless, Latin America's progress in raising the quality of its international trade integration has been scant. The region's commodity-heavy trade structures and relatively poor quality of trade connectivity can hinder growth potential to the extent that they are less conducive to technology and learning spillovers. Moreover, Latin America's domestic demand-driven growth pattern (a reflection of relatively low domestic savings) may become an additional drag to growth by accentuating the risk of a low savings-low external competitiveness trap.