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Interest rate in an "econom-ethic" perspective

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  • Giuseppe Garofalo

    (Department of Economics and Management, University of Tuscia, Viterbo)

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The paper deals with the topic of interest rate, which has long been confused with usury and is determined by parsimony and the marginal product of capital or, as an alternative, by conventions. It will be shown how the return differentials and the ever changing relationship that financial capital establishes with industrial capital are determined, starting from the risk-free rate or benchmark. As far as the level of the interest rate is concerned, the risks connected with both a "high" and a "low" cost of money are outlined. After having demonstrated how interest rate is, on the one hand, a policy variable and, on the other, a determinant of investments and the output gap, it will be shown how his level affects income distribution, the area in which the dialogue between economics and ethics has been most fertile.

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  • Giuseppe Garofalo, 2012. "Interest rate in an "econom-ethic" perspective," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 120(4), pages 399-412.
    • Handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2012:v:120:i:4:p:399-412
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    1. Ana María Gómez-Bezares & Fernando Gómez-Bezares, 2020. "Catholic Social Thought and Sustainability. Ethical and Economic Alignment," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-22, December.

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    Keywords

    Interest rates; Ethics and economics; Monetary economies; Financial relations;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

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