Money, Credit, and Banking

Aleksander Berentsen and Gabriele Camera

No 473, 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We use a modified version of the Lagos-Wright model to introduce an essential role for banks. Due to preference shocks, agents have excess demand for or supply of money balances. Banks arise to reallocate excess cash by taking deposits from sellers and making loans to buyers. We consider two variations of the model: one in which buyers borrow to finance consumption and another in which they borrow to finance investment. We show that for any positive nominal interest rate, the existence of banks leads to a higher level of steady state output and welfare. We also derive conditions under which borrowers voluntarily repay loans. Finally, we examine how monetary injections into the banking system affect the economy. The effects are very similar to limited particiption models and gives rise to a liquidity effect on nominal interest rates

Keywords: Money; Credit; Banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 E00 E50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Money, credit and banking (2007)
Working Paper: Money, Credit and Banking (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed004:473

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Society for Economic Dynamics Marina Azzimonti Department of Economics Stonybrook University 10 Nicolls Road Stonybrook NY 11790 USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christian Zimmermann ().