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Should We Take Inside Money Seriously

2007; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

Livio Stracca,

Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices, in which inside money, made out of commercial banks' liabilities, plays an active, structural role. It is shown that, in such a model, an inside money shock has a well-defined meaning. A calibrated version of the model is shown to generate small, but non-negligible effects of inside money shocks on output and inflation. I also simulate the effect of a banking crisis in the model. Moreover, I find that it is optimal for monetary policy to react to such shocks, although reacting to inflation alone does not result in a significant welfare loss.