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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809288103321

Autore

Poddar Tushar

Titolo

Interest Rate Determination in Lebanon / / Tushar Poddar, Mangal Goswami, Juan Sole, Victor Echévarria Icaza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-5889-6

1-4527-5822-0

1-282-54214-1

1-4519-0888-1

9786613822093

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

GoswamiMangal

SoleJuan

IcazaVictor Echévarria

Soggetti

Interest rates - Lebanon - Econometric models

Country risk - Lebanon - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Money and Monetary Policy

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Monetary Policy

Financing Policy

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Capital and Ownership Structure

Value of Firms

Goodwill

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

Finance

Banking

Financial services law & regulation

Monetary economics

Deposit rates

International reserves

Exchange rate risk

Interbank rates

Monetary base

Financial services

Central banks



Financial regulation and supervision

Money

Interest rates

Foreign exchange reserves

Financial risk management

Money supply

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND""; ""III. EMPIRICAL STRATEGY""; ""IV. TRENDS IN INTEREST RATES""; ""V. RESULTS""; ""VI. DISCUSSION""; ""VII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

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 requirement, large public debt, and high degree of deposit dollarization. We find that international interest rates are an important element in the determination of interest rates in Lebanon. In particular, the pass-through of global benchmark rates to interest rates on sovereign bonds is about 70 percent. The less-than-complete pass-through could be attributed to a home-bias effect reflecting a relatively stable and dedicated investor base. The study also shows that interest rates in Lebanon are affected by liquidity conditions as well as perceived sovereign risk.