Can Good Governance Lower Financial Intermediation Costs? /

This paper argues that better governance practices can reduce the costs, risks and uncertainty of financial intermediation. Our sample covers high-, middle- and low-income countries before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that net interest margins of banks are lower if various go...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarmuzek, Mariusz
Other Authors: Lybek, Tonny
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/279
Online Access:Full text available on IMF