The efficiency-stability trade-off: The case of high interest rate spreads in Venezuela

Developing Economies

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-26

  Vera, Leonardo ^a   Zambrano Sequín, Luis ^b   Faust, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA ANDRÉS BELLO   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Financial system; Interest rate spread; Latin America; Market power; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INTEREST RATE; MARKET; TRADE-OFF;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 33846923811     PISSN: 00121533     EISSN: 17461049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2007.00028.x     Document Type: Article

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