Interest charged by banks to their borrowers. These must be higher than the deposit interest (credit interest) because, in principle, a bank’s profit lies in the difference between the lending interest and the deposit interest. – See deposit interest, deposit interest, interest, interest margin, interest pass-through. – See the annex entitled „Euro area statistics“ under the heading „Financial markets“ in the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin. There, the subheading „Lending rates“ shows the corresponding values according to various characteristics; ECB Monthly Bulletin August 2009, pp. 105 ff. (dependence of interest rates on the central bank’s key interest rate, theoretical and empirical; overviews; references).

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