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6 - Financial frictions and the monetary transmission mechanism: theory, evidence and policy implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

C. Bean
Affiliation:
Bank of England
J. Larsen
Affiliation:
Bank of England
K. Nikolov
Affiliation:
Bank of England
Ignazio Angeloni
Affiliation:
European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Anil K. Kashyap
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Benoît Mojon
Affiliation:
European Central Bank, Frankfurt
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Introduction

There is little doubt that central bankers pay considerable attention to the activities of commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. So in a survey of eighty-nine central banks on the key ingredients for a successful monetary framework, Fry et al. (2000) found that out of twenty-one possible factors ‘analysis of the banking sector’ came seventh on average, even ranking ahead of ‘analysis of the real sector’. Of course central banks will usually have an interest in the behaviour of financial intermediaries for financial stability reasons and indeed ‘analysis of domestic financial stability’ was ranked fifth on average in the same survey. But even for the sixteen central banks that cited an inflation target as the most important ingredient and for whom understanding the transmission mechanism would be key, the categories relating to the banking sector received high ranking.

The traditional textbook models that are routinely used for the analysis of monetary policy, such as IS-LM, usually do not spell out the assumptions that underpin the transmission mechanism and, in so far as they do, they usually pay little attention to the role of financial intermediaries. New Keynesian models of the sort set out in Clarida, Galí and Gertler (1999) often build on more explicit microfoundations, and usually assume that capital markets are free of frictions and complete. In such a world the behaviour of financial intermediaries would be of only rather limited interest.

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Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
A Study by the Eurosystem Monetary Transmission Network
, pp. 107 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2003

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