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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826313403321

Autore

Gelos Gaston

Titolo

Banking Spreads in Latin America / / Gaston Gelos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-3468-7

1-4527-5923-5

1-283-51371-4

9786613826169

1-4519-0840-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Latin America

Interest rates - Latin America

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Caribbean

Competition

Deposit rates

Depository Institutions

Economywide Country Studies: Latin America

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Finance

Finance: General

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Financial markets

Financial services industry

Financial services

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Interest rates

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Legal support in revenue administration

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy

Monetary policy

Money and Monetary Policy



Mortgages

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Reserve requirements

Revenue administration

Revenue

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2006".

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE DETERMINANTS OF SPREADS: LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""III. DESCRIPTIVE EVIDENCE""; ""IV. ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATIONS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Intermediation spreads in Latin America are high by international standards. This paper examines the determinants of bank interest margins in that region using bank and country-level data from 85 countries, including 14 Latin American economies. The results suggest that Latin America has higher interest rates, less efficient banks, and larger reserve requirements than other regions and that these factors have a significant impact on spreads. However, Latin American countries do not differ markedly from their peers in other aspects that are found important in determining the cost of financial intermediation, such as inflation and bank profit taxation.