Interest Rate Determination in Lebanon /

This paper seeks to understand how interest rates are formed in Lebanon, by focusing on the pass-through from benchmark rates, prevailing liquidity conditions, and the main characteristics of the Lebanese economy, notably its open capital account, fixed exchange rate, high government borrowing requi...

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Autor principal: Poddar, Tushar
Outros Autores: Goswami, Mangal, Icaza, Victor Echevarria, Sole, Juan
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/094
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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