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Ceilings on Interest Rates and Investment: The Example of Greece

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This paper examines the influence of credit conditions on private investment under financial repression in Greece. Three flexible accelerator investment specifications are estimated. Alternative measures are tried for the dependent and independent variables. The reported equations are selected by a simple sequential specialization procedure. The empirical results confirm the existence of an important, but lagged, effect of bank finance on investment. This reflects credit rationing, due to interest rate controls, in the Greek banking system. Various arguments from the financial repression literature are invoked to justify the finding of a positive sign on the user cost variables in the investment equations. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

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  • Voridis, Hercules, 1993. "Ceilings on Interest Rates and Investment: The Example of Greece," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 75(2), pages 276-283, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:75:y:1993:i:2:p:276-83
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    1. Felix Eschenbach, 2004. "Finance and Growth: A Survey of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 04-039/2, Tinbergen Institute.
    2. Seth Freedman & Ginger Zhe Jin, 2008. "Do Social Networks Solve Information Problems for Peer-to-Peer Lending? Evidence from Prosper.com," Working Papers 08-43, NET Institute.
    3. Comlanvi Jude EGGOH, 2009. "Développement financier et croissance : Une synthèse des contributions pionnières," LEO Working Papers / DR LEO 442, Orleans Economics Laboratory / Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans (LEO), University of Orleans.
    4. Laura Capera & Andrés Murcia Pabón & Dairo Estrada, 2011. "Efectos de los Límites a las Tasas de Interés sobre la Profundización Financiera," Temas de Estabilidad Financiera 057, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.

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