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This paper investigates the response of lending interest rates of changes in money market rates in El Salvador and Guatemala. The empirical results obtained by means of cointegration and error correction models indicate that in the case of El Salvador there exist a weak response from lending rates to changes in interbank rates, but in Guatemala no response was found. In El Salvador the two market rates employed in the analysis, the interbank rate and the comercial paper rate, shower immediate response. It was also found that there exist reciprocal Granger causality between the money market rate of both countries, which could be stronger than that existing between the leading and market rates at the national levels.// Este trabajo investiga la respuesta de las tasas activas de préstamo de los sectores bancarios de El Salvador y Guatemala a cambios en las tasas de los respectivos mercados monetarios. La evidencia empírica obtenida por medio de la estimación de vectores de cointegración y modelos de corrección de errores indica que, en el caso de El Salvador, existe una respuesta muy lenta de las tasas bancarias a cambios en las tasas de los mercados monetarios, a la vez que en Guatemala no existe ninguna respuesta. En El Salvador, sin embargo, las dos tasas de mercado empleadas en el análisis, la interbancaria y la de papel comercial cotizado en la Bolsa, mostraron respuestas inmediatas recíprocas. Se encontró, asimismo, que existe causalidad de Granger recíproca entre las tasa de papel comercial de ambos países y que los nexos trasnacionales entre ambos países pueden ser más sólidos que aquellos entre estas tasas y las respectivas tasas activas en cada país.
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Cáceres, Luis René, 2002.
"Inercia en las Tasas de Interés de El Salvador y Guatemala,"
El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(273), pages 95-113, enero-mar.
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RePEc:elt:journl:v:69:y:2002:i:273:p:95-113
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