Title
Money, financial stability and efficiency.
Abstract
Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts but in practice contracts are nominal. We consider a standard banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate liquidity risk and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. With non-contingent nominal deposit contracts, a decentralized banking system can achieve the first-best efficient allocation if the central bank accommodates the demands of the private sector for fiat money. Price level variations allow full sharing of aggregate risks. An interbank market allows the sharing of idiosyncratic liquidity risk. In contrast, idiosyncratic (bank-specific) return risks cannot be shared using monetary policy alone as real transfers are needed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.jet.2013.02.002
Journal of Economic Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
G01,G21,G28
Journal
149
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0022-0531
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franklin Allen100.68
Elena Carletti200.68
Douglas Gale36412.59