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Discussion: The Determinants of Bank Interest Margins: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Extract

In this paper Ho and Saunders apply a model that has been used to analyze dealer spreads to banking.

A potential contribution to a field can arise whenever a well-developed framework of analysis in one problem area is applied to another field. The risk of a mechanical application, however, is that the institutional structure of the two problem areas is so different that no real insights are gained. What are the facts here?

Type
Commercial Banking
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1981

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