The Banking Spread and the Resource Cost of Capital

Number: 
92
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
G21, F30, F34, O4, E43, E5
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

The paper provides a model of the banking firm in the macroeconomy intended to explain what determines the interest rate spread. A key factor explaining the spread in our model is the resource cost of capital. A statistical result confirms the prediction