Facing the 2008 crisis: Brazilian Central Bank and public banking system as Minskyan ‘big banks’

Simone Deos and Ana Rosa Ribeiro de Mendonça

Chapter 3 in Public Banks in the Age of Financialization, 2017, pp 53-66 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The authors pick up on Hyman Minsky’s concept of a ‘big bank’, that is, the central bank as a lender of last resort, which together with big government stabilizes the economy. According to the authors, the provision of liquidity in order to avoid the financial crisis can be performed by a group of public banks in coordination with the central bank, thereby jointly playing the role of big banks. Empirically, they show that the impact of the 2008 crisis on the Brazilian economy was rather limited because the Brazilian Central Bank together with the public banks supplied sufficient liquidity for non-financial agents. Specific institutional characteristics of the Brazilian financial system have allowed these big banks to react promptly to the crisis.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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