Will more credit increase interest rates in rural Nepal?

Type Report
Title Will more credit increase interest rates in rural Nepal?
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2000
URL http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:bereco:2100
Abstract
We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using data from a cross-sectional national household survey from Nepal. We find strong support for a full information, capacity-constrained and repeated oligopoly model with third-degree price discrimination. We find only marginal support for an asymmetric information cost-pricing monpolistic competition model.

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