and North Africa. Price competition has a positive effect on bank liquidity, as it induces self-discipline incentives on … banks for the choice of bank funding sources and for the holding of liquid assets. On the other hand, price competition may … compensate for the reduction in bank profitability. Also, banks subject to stronger competitive pressures may have a higher rate …

Over the past three decades, the price of machinery and equipment fell dramatically relative to other prices in … relative price of tangible tradable capital goods provided a significant impetus to the capital deepening that took place … during the same time period. The broad-based decline in the relative price of machinery and equipment, in turn, was driven by …