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The Financial Sector
The economy consists of the government, central bank,
commercial banks, firms, and households
The Model for a and the central bank in its turn lends only to the
government
Closed Only firms take loans from the commercial banks and
Economy commercial banks receive deposits only from the
households who hold their entire wealth or savings in
the form of bank deposits and currency
Households are the ultimate lenders and do not take
any loans
The source of supply of new commercial bank loans is
the new deposits they receive
The new deposits in turn come from the part of the
saving that households hold in the form of bank
deposits.
Hence,
Fiscal Policy:
Government Also,
Expenditure Financed
by Borrowing from the
Central Bank
The model presented above clearly shows how the
processes of generation of money, credit, spending,
income, and saving are closely interwoven
It shows how the creation of high-powered
high money and
credit by the central bank leads to spending on goods
Fiscal Policy: and services
Government
Expenditure Financed This expenditure in turn generates income
by Borrowing from the The saving made out of that income leads to the
Central Bank creation of more money and credit, which leads to
another round of generation of spending, income, and
saving, and this process goes on until the additional
income that is generated in each round eventually falls
to zero.
To examine the impact of monetary policy, we
consider a cut in rc by the central bank
As rc is cut, the banks are able to extend new
loans out of their outstanding deposit
The excess supply in the loan market at the initial
equilibrium r will drive down r until I goes up
This will raise Y
Monetary Policy
This process of expansion will continue until the
additional saving generated in each successive
round eventually falls to zero
Here, people want to hold all their saving in the form of
bank deposits or money
Saving constitutes the only source of demand for new
money
We have
Mode of
Financing and
Thus, ceases to be a determinant of Y.
Autonomous
will play a role in the determination of Y if investors
Expenditure finance it by drawing down their bank deposits.
In such a scenario, credit market equilibrium condition
Mode of Accordingly, the goods market equilibrium condition
Financing and and the equilibrium Y are given, respectively, by
Autonomous
Expenditure
The fall in bank deposits by I reduces banks’ supply of
new loans by (1 − ρ)I .
Thus, in the net, aggregate investment goes up by I −(1
Mode of − ρ)) = ρ .
Financing and This sets off the multiplier process and generates
Autonomous production and income
Expenditure This will generate new saving, and therefore, new bank
deposit
This restores bank deposits to their initial level
Similarly, if the government finances G with new loans
Mode of from commercial banks or income tax, it will cease to
Rigidity and the There are two sources of fund for the banks: deposits
and loans from the central bank.
Behavior of the The interest rate at which the central bank lends to the
Economy commercial banks is the policy rate of the central bank
rc
Banks fix their lending rates by applying a markup to rc
and fix the deposit rates suitably below the lending
rates to ensure a reasonable rate of profit
We do not distinguish between the deposit rate and
Interest Rate lending rate at this stage and denote both by r and
Rigidity and the make it an increasing function of rc
Behavior of the
Economy
We assume for simplicity that only firms need loans to
finance their investment and they finance their entire
investment expenditure with new bank credit
The goods market equilibrium condition now is
The Case of No
Investors’ expectations regarding the future prospect of
Credit Rationing their businesses, which we denote by E
We assume as before that government finances G by
borrowing from the central bank.
The Case of No
In this model, people do not hold currency
Credit Rationing Therefore, the money supply in this model, i.e., the
amount of money in the hands of the people is given by
the stock of bank deposits only