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The Impact of Federal Interest Rate Regulations on the Small Saver: Further Evidence
Author(s) -
LAWRENCE EDWARD C.,
ELLIEHAUSEN GREGORY E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
the journal of finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 18.151
H-Index - 299
eISSN - 1540-6261
pISSN - 0022-1082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb00652.x
Subject(s) - inflation (cosmology) , economics , interest rate , portfolio , section (typography) , survey data collection , government (linguistics) , monetary economics , macroeconomics , public economics , financial economics , business , statistics , linguistics , physics , mathematics , philosophy , theoretical physics , advertising
ABSTRACT This paper provides further evidence on the distributional impact of interest rate ceilings on the small saver. Cross‐section data from the 1977 Consumer Credit Survey was used to estimate the implicit losses imposed on different income classes by government regulations. Our findings generally support earlier studies which found the implicit burden to be regressive among income classes. However, the degree of regressivity showed a marked decrease since 1970. These results may be explained by portfolio adjustments of households and financial innovations in response to deposit rate ceilings and accelerating inflation during the 1970s.