Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205524 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 03/19
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
Macroeconomic models currently used by policy makers generally assume that the workings of financial markets can be fully summarised by financial prices, because the Modigliani and Miller (1958) theorem holds. This paper argues that these models are too limited in describing how monetary policy (and other) shocks are transmitted to the economy and points to new directions. The models are too limited because they disregard an information asymmetry between borrowers and lenders and the importance of financial intermediaries not only for individual depositors but the economy as a whole. Incorporating financial market interactions into macroeconomic models will enhance the understanding of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy and other shocks.
Subjects: 
Financial intermediaries
credit channel
monetary transmission mechanism
open economies
JEL: 
E32
E44
E50
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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