IS FINANCIAL REPRESSION REALLY BAD?

Başlangıç: 2009
Yayıncı: Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

This paper examines the relationship between reserve requirements, interest rate taxes, and long-term growth. I present a model which shows that the government might repress the financial sector as this is the easy way of channelling resources to productive sectors. In this endogenous model, I employ the government input in the firm production function. The implications of the model are confirmed in that, an increase in reserve requirements and interest rate controls have two different reverse effects on growth - one is the negative effect on the financial sector. The other is a growth enhancing effect from the effective public spending on the real sectors.

Keywords:

Reserve ratio, Interest rate Growth,

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