Bank Net Worth and Frustrated Monetary Policy /

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Author / Creator:	Zentefis, Alexander Konstantinos, author.
Imprint:	2017. Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017
Description:	1 electronic resource (119 pages)
Language:	English
Format:	E-Resource Dissertations
Local Note:	School code: 0330
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11715071

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Other authors / contributors:	University of Chicago. degree granting institution.
ISBN:	9780355078121
Notes:	Advisors: Douglas W. Diamond; Stavros Panageas Committee members: John H. Cochrane; Pietro Veronesi. Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A. English
Summary:	This paper presents a model in which the effect of monetary policy depends on the state of bank net worth. When banks are flush with equity, changes in the central bank's policy interest rate pass through fully to bank lending rates. When banks have low equity, there is no such pass-through. Banks in the model are local monopolists for borrowers near them. When they have lots of equity, they compete for customers at the edges of their markets. When they have little equity, they retreat and exploit the monopoly power over their local customers. With very low equity, banks may even raise lending rates after a drop in the policy rate. The model posits novel connections between aggregate bank net worth, bank competition, and the effectiveness of monetary policy.

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