Monetary Policy and the Financing of Firms

Fiorella De Fiore (), Pedro Teles () and Oreste Tristani ()

No 1123, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: How should monetary policy respond to changes in financial conditions? In this paper we consider a simple model where firms are subject to idiosyncratic shocks which may force them to default on their debt. Firms’assets and liabilities are denominated in nominal terms and predetermined when shocks occur. Monetary policy can therefore affect the real value of funds used to finance production. Furthermore, policy affects the loan and deposit rates. We find that allowing for short-term inflation volatility in response to exogenous shocks can be optimal; that the optimal response to adverse financial shocks is to lower interest rates, if not at the zero bound, and to engineer a short period of inflation; that the Taylor rule may implement allocations that have opposite cyclical properties to the optimal ones. JEL Classification: E20, E44, E52.

Keywords: Financial stability; debt deflation; bankruptcy costs; price level volatility; optimal monetary policy; stabilization policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-12
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