Determinants of Bank Interest Margins in the Caucasus and Central Asia »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2015/87
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Raja Almarzoqi , and Sami Ben Naceur
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 April 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484342817.001
ISBN: 9781484342817
Keywords: Interest margins, Operating costs, Market power, Macroeconomic policies, bank, interest, banks, risk, credit, General,
In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) over the period 1998-2013. We apply the dealership model of Ho and Sa...