Banks and Monetary Shocks in Emerging Markets : How Far Can We Go with the "Credit View"? /

This paper examines the propagation of monetary shocks in a two-good optimizing macromodel where domestic banking activity is costly and the non-tradable sector is highly dependent on domestic bank credit, as in most emerging market economies. The model develops the Bernanke-Blinder 'credit vie...

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Main Author: Catao, Luis
Other Authors: Rodriguez, Sergio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/068
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:This paper examines the propagation of monetary shocks in a two-good optimizing macromodel where domestic banking activity is costly and the non-tradable sector is highly dependent on domestic bank credit, as in most emerging market economies. The model develops the Bernanke-Blinder 'credit view' of the monetary transmission mechanism along classical lines, with no Keynesian rigidities being imposed and the only sources of 'imperfection' arising from deposit and credit-in-advance constraints. Using numerical simulations, we show that such a relatively simple model goes a long way toward explaining some key 'stylized facts' of recent financial crises.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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