Greece: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
October 31, 1997
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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix reviews fiscal developments in Greece, comparing its revenue and expenditure patterns with a number of comparator country averages, and discusses prospects. The paper focuses on the evolution and tax-determinants of the most widely followed indicator of the health and competitiveness of a banking system, the lending-deposit spread. It also brings to bear a wide variety of indicators and econometric techniques to the problem of understanding the state and prospects of the banking system.
Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal consolidation, Foreign banks, Income, National accounts
Keywords: banking system, commercial bank, Commercial banks, CR, Europe, Foreign banks, foreign currency, Global, Income, interest rate, ISCR, market share, return on equity, tax rate, Western Hemisphere
Pages:
133
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
089
Series:
Country Report No. 1997/089
Stock No:
1GRCEA0011997
ISBN:
9781451816075
ISSN:
1934-7685
