Law & Development Society Workshop
presents
Dr. Ignacio DeLeon
Credit Access to SMEs in Latin America:
The Challenge of Building Market Institutions
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
12:30 – 2:00
Dining Room, Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
The purpose of this lecture is to highlight the development of credit access to Small and Medium enterprises through collateral registries and credit rating entities. The analysis will focus on Peru, Mexico and Jamaica. The lecture will highlight the limitations of conventional law and economics assessments in the development of market institutions usually implicit in legal reform initiatives, as well as the role of legal culture in the resilience of market institutions.
Ignacio De Leon is Managing Director and Partner of ECONLEX CORPORATION, LLC a Miami-based consulting firm specialized in Private Sector Development in emerging markets. Mr. De Leon is an international expert in Latin American antitrust and trade policy, intellectual property and investment promotion. Currently, he advises the USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation on competition policy and regulatory matters, and several governments in Latin America and Central Asia. Mr. De Leon is former Chairman of the Venezuelan Competition Authority, Pro-Competencia. He received his Ph.D. in Law and Economics at University College London (1999). Also, he earns a Master of Economics from Universidad Francisco Marroquin, and a Master of Laws degree from Queen Mary College, University of London. Mr. De Leon is author of “An Institutional Analysis of Antitrust Policy”, (Kluwer Law International, London, 2009) and “Latin American Competition Law and Policy: A Policy in Search of Identity,” (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2001). Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of World Competition Law and Economics Review and other law journals specialized in law and economics. He also regularly contributes to major specialized publications on law and economics and gives public speeches on trade and competition policy, infrastructure regulation and intellectual property.
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at
n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
