Interest Rate Spreads in the Eastern Caribbean /

This paper examines interest rate spreads in the Eastern Caribbean and seeks to explain why they are persistently high by comparison with other low-inflation countries. The paper concludes that operating costs appear to be a key determinant of observed interest rate spreads, giving rise to the polic...

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מחבר ראשי: Randall, Ruby
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/059
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF
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