1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910773393603321

Titolo

Austria: Compulsory Voting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955022203321

Autore

Hauner David

Titolo

Fiscal Policy and Financial Development / / David Hauner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613827692

9781462398249

1462398243

9781452779416

1452779414

9781283515245

1283515245

9781451908220

1451908229

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Debts, Public

Finance

Banks and banking

Economic development

Bank credit

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks

Civil service & public sector

Credit

Depository Institutions

Finance, Public

Finance: General

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy



Financial sector development

Financial services industry

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

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

Money and Monetary Policy

Mortgages

Public Enterprises

Public sector

Public-Private Enterprises

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.