ceiling rate

The ceiling rate is determined by the marginal productivity of speculation.

The committee also opposed any ceiling rate for non concessional loans and advances.

The bank left its ceiling rate, the 5-to-10-day securities repurchase rate, unchanged at 4.90 percent.

Banks try to borrow mostly at the cheaper floor rate, using the ceiling rate only during acute funds shortages.

It lifted the ceiling rates of the call money market, short-term deposits, bills rediscounting, etc.

For the least developed countries (LDCs), a ceiling rate of 0.01% is applied.

In addition to the ceiling rates, the minimum amount assessed to any member nation (or 'floor' rate) is set at 0.001% of the UN budget.

The bank reduced the ceiling rate on bank advances and on inter-bank call and short-notice money.

Using a Mengerian disequilibrium model, Fekete maintains that there are two rates of interest: a floor and a ceiling rate.

The German Social Democrats have even objected to the possibility of an increase from 15 % to 16 % and they certainly consider it totally wrong to cease to apply the ceiling rates.

Under an unadulterated gold standard, the floor rate of interest is determined by the marginal time preference theory and the ceiling rate is determined by the marginal productivity of fixed capital.

The situation is quite clear: only if the national budgets constantly showed a deficit of 0.9 % and growth remained below 1.5 %, only then would we have a situation where the expenditure arising from half the ceiling rate was lower than the expenditure under a financial perspective yet to be agreed.

The coordination of VAT rates and excise duties that took place with my modest contribution, in 1991, under the Luxembourg Presidency, established the base rates, including zero rates in some areas, and the ceiling rates, allowing the Member States a degree of freedom of action for a national taxation policy.