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La relazione tra saggio di profitto e tasso d'interesse e il ruolo della profittabilita' bancaria. (The relation between the profit rate and the interest rate, and the role of bank profitability)

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  • Riccardo Zolea

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L'articolo si concentra sugli aspetti di elaborazione teorica della relazione tra tasso di profitto e tasso di interesse. In letteratura emergono due approcci grossomodo opposti: nel primo, il tasso di interesse determina il saggio di profitto, e quindi ladistribuzione del reddito; nel secondo, e' il saggio di profitto che regola il tasso di interesse, una volta che la distribuzione e' gia' determinata. L'introduzione della condizione che il capitale bancario riceva un saggio di profitto almeno uguale a quello generale rende concepibile la determinazione endogena del tasso di interesse quale prezzo della merce 'prestito', il tasso della banca centrale considerato come il prezzo di un 'input bancario'. The paper focuses on theoretical aspects of the relationship between the profit rate and the interest rate. Two roughly opposite approaches emerge in the literature: in a first one, the interest rate determines the profit rate, and therefore income distribution; in a second one, the profit rate regulates the interest rate, once distribution is already determined. The introduction of the condition that bank capital receives a profit rate at least equal to the general one makes it possible to conceptualize the interest rate as the endogenously determined price of the commodity ‘loan', and the central bank rate as the price of a ‘bank input'.

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  • Riccardo Zolea, 2021. "La relazione tra saggio di profitto e tasso d'interesse e il ruolo della profittabilita' bancaria. (The relation between the profit rate and the interest rate, and the role of bank profitability)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 74(294), pages 97-111.
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    Keywords

    Interest rate; bank profitability; rate of profit; Marx;
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    JEL classification:

    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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