IMF Staff Country Reports

Greece: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

October 31, 1997

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Greece: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

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

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    133

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1997/089

  • Stock No:

    1GRCEA0011997

  • ISBN:

    9781451816075

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685