The Effects of Institutional Development Upon Costs of Country Level Borrowing

John Owenhouse, Joseph Atwood and Myles Watts

No 307241, MSU Staff Papers from Montana State University > Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics

Abstract: We examine relationships between country level private lending rates and four metrics of institutional development: the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW), the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF), and the Freedom in the World Index (FWI). We find the EFW, WGI, and IEF metrics are largely consistent but anomalies exist between FWI and other indices. Robust regressions indicate that higher institutional metrics are associated with lower domestic lending rates. The effects a country's institutional metric upon nominal domestic interest rates is of similar magnitude or exceeds the effects of shocks in inflation.

Keywords: Agricultural; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2020-10-30
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307241

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