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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Money, Credit and Banking
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Aleksander Berentsen
  • Gabriele Camera
  • Christopher Waller
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 219
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2006
Abstract Text In monetary models where agents are subject to trading shocksnthere is typically an ex-post inefficiency since some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This problem creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits and make nominal loans. In general, financial intermediation improves the allocation. The gains in welfarencome from the payment of interest on deposits and not from relaxing borrowers’ liquidity constraints. We also demonstrate that when credit rationing occurs increasing the rate of inflation can benwelfare improving.
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