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Basic interest rate, bank competition and bank spread in personal credit operations in Brazil: A theoretical and empirical analysis

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  • Guilherme Jonas Costa da Silva

    (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)

  • Lívia Abrão Steagall Pirtouscheg

    (Post-Graduation Program in Economy of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)

Abstract

The debate on the strategy of banking spread reduction in Brazil has been extended for a long time and was fundamentally concentrated in macroeconomics aspects. This paper has the goal of evaluate the new policy of banking spread reduction implemented by the federal government, which has added microeconomic aspects to this tendency. In order to do so, a mathematical model was presented that combines microeconomics aspects, such as was developed by Nakane (2001), with macroeconomics aspects, originally presented by Ho and Saunders (1981). This model was tested for the 25 largest banks in the period of March 2009 to March 2013, using the Panel Data Methodology. The GMM System model was the one that best fitted the data gathered and the results showed that both aspects are relevant in explaining the banking spread in Brazil, and should not be analyzed separately, as is frequently made in the literature, considering the econometric problems related to the omission bias of relevant variables...

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  • Guilherme Jonas Costa da Silva & Lívia Abrão Steagall Pirtouscheg, 2015. "Basic interest rate, bank competition and bank spread in personal credit operations in Brazil: A theoretical and empirical analysis," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 16(1), pages 32-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:econom:v:16:y:2015:1:32_45
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    1. Thiago Trafane Oliveira Santos, 2021. "High Lending Interest Rates in Brazil: cost or concentration?," Working Papers Series 550, Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department.
    2. Thanh NGUYEN, Phong & Le Hoang Thuy To NGUYEN, Quyen, 2020. "Critical Factors Affecting Construction Price Index: An Integrated Fuzzy Logic and Analytical Hierarchy Process," MPRA Paper 103437, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 31 May 2020.
    3. Ornelas, José Renato Haas & da Silva, Marcos Soares & Van Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar, 2022. "Informational switching costs, bank competition, and the cost of finance," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 138(C).

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    Keywords

    Banking spread; Basic interest rate; Competition; Panel data; Brazil;
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    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

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