This paper presents a two-country, two-good, two-currency overlapping generations model that features limited participation and costly state verification in the credit markets. The model is used to study the role of financial factors in the international transmission of business fluctuations, and to
Credit Market Interest Rates and Exchange Rate Dynamics
β Scribed by Christos Papazoglou; Pavlos Karadeloglou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-9307
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β¦ Synopsis
This paper examines the effects of both anticipated and unanticipated monetary disturbances in a small open economy by taking into consideration adjustments in the banks' portfolio of earning assets. It primarily focuses on the adjustment of credit market interest rates as well as on that of the exchange rate. In particular, it is shown that the sluggish adjustment of banks' loan portfolio as well as the anticipation of a future policy change can generate perverse short-run behaviour.
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