Benchmarking Banking Sector Efficiency Across Regional Blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa : What Room for Policy? /

This paper examines the determinants of net interest margins in four regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and one comparator block in the Eastern Caribbean. Using bank-level data, we find that countries with a high level of operating costs, a high ratio of equity to total assets and high treasury b...

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Autor principal: Boutin-Dufresne, Francois
Outros Autores: Pena, Santiago, Williams, Oral, Zawisza, Tomasz A.
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/051
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF