Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52860 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2005/09
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We consider an overlapping generations model with two production factors and two types of agents in the presence of financial intermediation and its application to the Russian default of August 1998. The paper focuses on the analysis of the consequences of a sudden negative repayments shock on financial intermediation capacity and consequently on the economy as a whole. The model exhibits a ‘chain reaction’ property, when a single macroeconomic shock can lead to the exhaustion of credit resources and to the subsequent collapse of the whole banking system. To maintain the capability of the system to recover, regulatory intervention is needed even in the presence of the state guarantees on agents’ deposits in the banks (workout incentives). We compare the results for an intermediated economy with those derived under the assumption of a market economy, and draw some broad conclusions on the consequences of the crises, which are contingent on the financial sector structure.
Subjects: 
financial intermediation
banks
markets
overlapping generations models
general equilibrium
regulation
transition economies
financial crisis
Russian default
JEL: 
D50
G21
G28
E44
E53
O16
ISBN: 
9291907243
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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