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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788405103321

Autore

Hauner David

Titolo

Fiscal Policy and Financial Development / / David Hauner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-9824-3

1-4527-7941-4

1-283-51524-5

9786613827692

1-4519-0822-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Debts, Public

Finance

Banks and banking

Economic development

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Public Enterprises

Public-Private Enterprises

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Monetary economics

Civil service & public sector

Banking

Public sector

Financial sector development

Credit

Bank credit

Finance, Public

Financial services industry



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. HOW IMPORTANT IS PUBLIC SECTOR CREDIT, AND WHERE?""; ""III. HOW PUBLIC SECTOR CREDIT COULD HARM FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT""; ""IV. DOES PUBLIC SECTOR CREDIT AFFECT THE DEPTH OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT?""; ""V. DOES PUBLIC SECTOR CREDIT AFFECT THE QUALITY OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT?""; ""VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS�IMPLICATIONS FOR FISCAL POLICY""; ""APPENDIX TABLES""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

We examine the effects of public sector borrowing from the domestic banking system on financial development in middle-income countries. While these countries' external debt has been falling, the share of bank credit absorbed by the public sector has been rising rapidly. We argue that this runs the risk of slowing financial development by affecting structural characteristics of the banking systems. We find empirical evidence that too much public sector borrowing harms financial deepening, and that banks mainly lending to the public sector tend to be more profitable but less efficient. We note that these effects add to the costs of fiscal prolificacy.