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Private Pension Funds in Oligopolistic Financial Markets: Some qualifications to conventional theory of financial development

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  • NoemI Levy
  • Guadalupe MANTEY

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The paper inquires into the efficiency of financial development policies in economies where the financial sector is based on oligopolistic commercial banking. In this case, interest rates on deposits may be set below the level required to achieve balance of payments equilibrium, so that banks are able to exact a risk free financial margin in their holdings of government bonds. Under such circumstances, banks lack incentives to place indirect debt in domestic security markets, as a means of providing long-term finance; and private capital market deepening is hindered. Pension fund privatisation, in this institutional environment, does not relieve public finances, because the government must act as issuer of last resort in order to stabilise the currency. This point is illustrated with Mexican data, and some policy measures to deal with this situation in developing economies are proposed.

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  • NoemI Levy & Guadalupe MANTEY, 2003. "Private Pension Funds in Oligopolistic Financial Markets: Some qualifications to conventional theory of financial development," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 167-180.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:irapec:v:17:y:2003:i:2:p:167-180
    DOI: 10.1080/0269217032000064035
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