The author sets out a methodology for analyzing episodes of high real interest rates in emerging market economies. He reviews the literature on what determines spreads in deposit rates and loan rates. Then he links the causes of interest rate spreads by explicitly modeling the incentive effect...

Este trabajo analiza el efecto de los trastornos en las condiciones de intercambio sobre una economía productiva; donde el capital es importado y el producto físico se ajusta lentamente a dichos cambios. El análisis muestra que, cuando el capital es importado y el deterioro en los términos de...

The study of bank interest rate spreads is central to our understanding of the process of financial intermediation. Data limitations generally restrict empirical analyses to interest rate spreads that are constructed from bank income statements and balance sheets. In this paper we make use of a...