Macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections: a survey

Stijn Claessens () and Ayhan Kose

No 677, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections. It focuses on two major channels through which financial imperfections can affect macroeconomic outcomes. The first channel, which operates through the demand side of finance and is captured by financial accelerator-type mechanisms, describes how changes in borrowers' balance sheets can affect their access to finance and thereby amplify and propagate economic and financial shocks. The second channel, which is associated with the supply side of finance, emphasises the implications of changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently, for macroeconomic outcomes. These channels have been shown to be important in explaining the linkages between the real economy and the financial sector. That said, many questions remain.

Keywords: asset prices; balance sheets; credit; financial accelerator; financial intermediation; financial linkages; international linkages; leverage; liquidity; macrofinancial linkages; output; real-financial linkages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D53 E21 E32 E44 E51 F36 F44 F65 G01 G10 G12 G14 G15 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 124 pages
Date: 2017-11
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Working Paper: Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Imperfections: A Survey (2017)
Working Paper: Macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections: A survey (2017)
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Working Paper: Macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections: a survey (2017)
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