The study explores the corporate sector debt in the Macedonian economy. It starts by a narrative scrutiny of its evolution using micro and macro data, and proceeds with a further analysis of its main components. The simple data inspection provides no evidence that corporate sector in Macedonia...

This paper focuses on investigating the determinants of lending rates and interest rate spreads in Macedonia. In order to quantify the effect of various factors on lending rates and interest rate spreads during the 2001-2009 period, we use panel estimation techniques on a sample of commercial...