We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using data from a cross-sectional national household survey from Nepal. We find strong support for a full information, capacity-constrained and repeated oligopoly model with third-degree price discrimination. We find only marginal support for an asymmetric information cost-pricing monpolistic competition model.
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Length: 48 pages Date of creation: 2000 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fth:bereco:2100
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