Purpose – Many developing countries embarked on a program of financial liberalization in order to maximize the benefits associated with a free market system. The preponderance of the evidence in the financial economics literature is that market-determined interest rates become volatile...

The single most important issue confronting a growing number of world economies today is the price of oil and its attendant consequences on economic output. Several studies have taken the approach of Hamilton (1983) in investigating the effect of oil price shocks on levels of gross domestic...

Several scholars of financial economics observed that during the 1980s, market interest rates declined continuously with little or no impact on credit card rates. Recently, Meyercord (1994), Sinkey and Nash (1993) and Sullivan and Worden (1995) recorded significant changes in the credit card...