High Real Interest Rates Under Financial Liberalization : Is there a Problem? /

Concerns were raised beginning in the 1980s about the possible detrimental effects of high positive real interest rates under financial liberalization. Using a sample of 28 countries that underwent financial liberalization since the 1970s, the paper examines the evidence about the emergence of high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galbis, Vicente
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/007
Online Access:Full text available on IMF