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Financial Intermediation, Monetary Uncertainty, and Bank Interest Margins

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Title Financial Intermediation, Monetary Uncertainty, and Bank Interest Margins
Financial Intermediation, Monetary Uncertainty, and Bank Interest Margins
 
Creator Hernández, Leonardo
 
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Description This paper studies a simple model of financial intermediation in order to understand how the lending-borrowing spread or interest margin) charged by financial intermediaries is determined in equilibrium in a monetary economy. The main conclusion of the paper concerns the effect on the spread of changes in the distribution of monetary innovations. Thus, changes in the monetary-policy-rule followed by the Central Bank which alter the volatility of inflation will have important effects on the interest margin and also on the amount of credit available to investors. A crosssection empirical analysis strongly supports our hypothesis:
Financial Intermediation, Monetary Uncertainty, and Bank Interest Margins
 
Publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado - Facultad de Economía y Negocios
 
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Date 2010-03-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/227
 
Source Revista de Análisis Económico - Economic Analysis Review; Vol 7, No 2 (1992); 23-42
Revista de Análisis Económico – Economic Analysis Review; Vol 7, No 2 (1992); 23-42
0718-8870
0716-5927
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/227/453