This paper tests and find evidence that support the view that credit interest rates respond more to increases than to decreases in the Central Bank basic interest rate (Selic). This asymmetry is robust to an event analysis, in which the availability of a dataset containing daily information is...

Bulgarian Abstract: Докладът обобщава предложените през последните няколко десетилетия политики за включването на финансовите услуги в облагаемата база на ДДС. Всяка...