Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Sole Martinez Peria is the Division Chief of the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. She is currently on leave from the World Bank, where she was Research Manager of the Finance and Private Sector Development Team within the Development Research Group. Her published work has focused on access to finance, bank financing for SMEs, the determinants of currency and banking crises, depositor market discipline, financial inclusion, foreign bank participation in developing countries, the impact of remittances on financial development and the spread of the Global Financial Crisis. Prior to joining The World Bank in 1998, Sole worked at the Brookings Institution, the Central Bank of Argentina, the Federal Reserve Board, and the International Monetary Fund. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Stanford University.
- Bank ownership: Trends and implications
- Access to finance and job growth
- The impact of the global financial crisis on the use of long-term finance
- Understanding the use of long-term finance
- Insulating Foreign Bank Subsidiaries from Shocks to Their Parents
- Credit Information Sharing Reforms and Firm Financing
- International Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Does the introduction of movable collateral registries increase firms’ access to finance?
- Bank Regulation and Supervision: Insights from a New World Bank Dataset
- Bank Ownership and Lending Patterns during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis: Evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe
- The impact of bank competition on access to finance
- Lessons from Recent Crises and Current Priorities for Finance Practitioners and Policy-Makers
- The Influence of Greece's Debt Crisis on the Banking Sector
- Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from El Salvador
- Triplet Crises: Lessons European Leaders Can Learn From Emerging Markets
- What's at the Top of the Agenda for the Financial Sector after the Crisis?
- What Explains Comovement in Stock Market Returns during the 2007–08 Crisis?
- Measuring Bank Competition: How Should We Do It?
- What Do We Know About the Impact of Remittances on Financial Development?
- What Drives the Price of Remittances?: New Evidence Using the Remittance Prices Worldwide Database
- What Do We Know about the Consequences of Foreign Bank Participation in Developing Countries?