Financial Intermediation and Credit Policy in Business Cycle Analysis

Mark Gertler and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Chapter 11 in Handbook of Monetary Economics, 2010, vol. 3, pp 547-599 from Elsevier

Abstract: We develop a canonical framework to think about credit market frictions and aggregate economic activity in the context of the current crisis. We use the framework to address two issues in particular: first, how disruptions in financial intermediation can induce a crisis that affects real activity; and second, how various credit market interventions by the central bank and the Treasury of the type we have seen recently, might work to mitigate the crisis. We make use of earlier literature to develop our framework and characterize how very recent literature is incorporating insights from the crisis.

Keywords: Asset Prices; Credit Policy; Financial Intermediation; Moral Hazard; Net Worth; Spreads (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-444-53470-5
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