Arbeitspapier

Bank lending, financial frictions, and inside money creation

I build a general equilibrium model of the transmission of monetary policy on bank lending. Bank lending is done by individual banks that face random investment opportunities by creating inside money. Banks are subject to a reserve requirement and have access to the interbank money market. The model shows that lowering the money market rate relative to the inflation rate reduces investment and welfare. This is because the money market is an outside option for banks that face bad investment opportunities. Reducing the money market rate lowers the value of this outside option, which in turn reduces banks' willingness to acquire reserves ex-ante. This leads to less aggregate reserves, which reduces the banking system's ability to grant credit.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 325

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
monetary policy transmission
open market operations
channel system
interest rate pass-through

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Altermatt, Lukas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Zurich, Department of Economics
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Altermatt, Lukas
  • University of Zurich, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2019

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