Are Bank Interest Rate Spreads Too High? A Simple Model for Decomposing Spreads

In the first seven months of 1995, average bank spreads in Ukraine ranged from 46 percentage points to 84 percentage points. The size of these spreads might suggest that banks enjoyed a wide profit margin. But inflation was high in Ukraine, and i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Montes-Negret, Fernando, Papi, Luca
Format: Viewpoint
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/02/696758/bank-interest-rate-spreads-too-high-simple-model-decomposing-spreads
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11634

Similar Items