Corporate finance and the monetary transmission mechanism

被引:101
作者
Bolton, Patrick [1 ]
Freixas, Xavier [1 ]
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
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10.1093/rfs/hhl002
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F8 [财政、金融];
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0202 ;
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We analyze the transmission effects of monetary policy in a general equilibrium model of the financial sector, with bank lending and securities markets. Bank lending is constrained by capital adequacy requirements, and asymmetric information adds a cost to outside bank equity capital. In our model, monetary policy does not affect bank lending through changes in bank liquidity; rather, it operates through changes in the spread of bank loans over corporate bonds, which induce changes in the aggregate composition of financing by firms, and in banks' equity-capital base. The model produces multiple equilibria, one of which displays all the features of a "credit crunch."
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