Asymmetric Information, Financial Intermediation and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Critical Review

Arbeitspapier

Macroeconomic models currently used by policy makers generally assume that the workings of financial markets can be fully summarised by financial prices, because the Modigliani and Miller (1958) theorem holds. This paper argues that these models are too limited in describing how monetary policy (and other) shocks are transmitted to the economy and points to new directions. The models are too limited because they disregard an information asymmetry between borrowers and lenders and the importance of financial intermediaries not only for individual depositors but the economy as a whole. Incorporating financial market interactions into macroeconomic models will enhance the understanding of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy and other shocks.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: New Zealand Treasury Working Paper ; No. 03/19

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy ; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
• Subject: Financial intermediaries ; credit channel ; monetary transmission mechanism ; open economies

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Claus, Iris ; Grimes, Arthur
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): New Zealand Government, The Treasury
• (where): Wellington
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/205524
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET