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Financial Intermediaries
Financial Intermediaries
Reference
Contemporary Financial Intermediation
Lecture Outline
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction Fractional Reserve Banking and the Goldsmith Anecdote? A Model of Banks and Regulation The Macroeconomic Implications of Fractional Reserve Large Financial Intermediaries How Banks can help to make nonbank financial contracting The empirical evidence: Banks are special Ownership structure of depository financial institutions The Borrower s choice of finance source
Introduction
Financial intermediaries produce information for two kinds of applications: 1. To macth transactors 2. To manage risks and transform the nature of claims as when a bank produces credit information to control a borrowers credit risk