Intermediation Spreads in a Dual Currency Economy : Argentina in the 1990s /

The currency board arrangement and widespread dollarization of the Argentine economy since 1991 have laid the basis for domestic interest rates to converge to international levels. Although such a convergence has been observed for interest rates on bank deposits, interest rates on bank lending remai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catao, Luis
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/090
Online Access:Full text available on IMF