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

Author/Editor:

Luis Catão ; Sergio L. Rodriguez

Publication Date:

March 1, 2000

Electronic Access:

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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.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/068

Subject:

Bank credit Banking Consumption Credit Emerging and frontier financial markets Employment Financial markets Labor Money National accounts

English

Publication Date:

March 1, 2000

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451848984/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0682000

Pages:

37

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