Interest Spreads in Banking : Costs, Financial Taxation, Market Power, and Loan Quality in the Colombian Case 1974-96 /

This paper examines the determinants of the high intermediation spread observed in the Colombian banking sector for over two decades. A reduced-form equation is estimated on the basis of a bank profit maximization model that permits a decomposition into operational costs, financial taxation, market...

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1. Verfasser: Barajas, Adolfo
Weitere Verfasser: Salazar, Natalia, Steiner, Roberto
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/110
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF