Release of the kraken: a novel money multiplier equation's debut in 21st century banking

Brian P. Hanley

No 2011-8, Economics Discussion Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: Use of a promise to pay by a bank to insure an outstanding loan in order to return the value of the insured amount into capital for use in writing a new loan is an invention in banking with calculably greater potential economic impact than the original invention of reserve banking. The consequence of this lending invention is to render the existing money multiplier equations of reserve banking obsolete whenever it is used. The equations describing this multiplier do not converge. Each set of parameters for reserve percentage, nesting depth, etc. creates a unique logarithmic curve rather than approaching a limit. Thus it is necessary to show behavior of this new equation by numerical methods. It is shown that remarkable multipliers occur and early nesting iterations can raise the multiplier into the thousands. This money creation innovation has the demonstrated capacity to impact nations. Understanding this new multiplier is necessary for economic analyses of the GFC.

Keywords: GFC; CDS; AIG; money multiplier; banking multiplier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E17 E20 E51 H56 H63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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