Republic of Azerbaijan : selected issues.

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (30 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts, graphs, tables
Language:English
Series:IMF Country Reports ; no. 14/160
IMF country report ; no. 14/160.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12503313
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Other authors / contributors:International Monetary Fund, issuing body.
ISBN:1498328458
9781498328456
9781498314473
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2014).
Summary:This Selected Issues paper uses a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest spreads in Azerbaijan over 2002â??2013. The dealership model of Ho and Saunders is applied, supplemented by market structure and macroeconomic environment variables, to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in Azerbaijan can be related to bank-specific variables or to a low degree of competition, controlling for macroeconomic factors. It is found that interest spreads are affected by operation cost efficiency, credit risk, liquidity risk, bank size, bank diversification, banki.
Other form:Print version: Republic of Azerbaijan : selected issues. Washington, District of Columbia : International Monetary Fund, ©2014 28 pages IMF Country Reports ; 14/160 9781498314473