Misintermediation and Business Fluctuation

J. Huston McCulloch

No 160, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Individuals plan consumption and production for different points in the future, using interest rates of various maturities as a guide. How-ever, individuals do not always pre-contract all planned future borrowing and lending, and the intermediaries they work through often do not match the maturity structure of their assets and liabilities. As a result of this individual failure to hedge and institutional "misintermediation", aggregate production and consumption plans for each period in the future need not coincide. The resulting discrepancy will eventually appear as a recession or boom, involving an unanticipated change in interest rates. Fiscal stimulus aggravates the welfare loss associated with a recession, whether the spending is consumption-displacing or wholly wasteful.

Date: 1977-01
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Published as McCulloch, J. Huston. "Misintermediation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations," Journal of Monetary Eocnomics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 103-115, (July 1981).

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