Banking with nominal deposits and inside money

Inside Money, Procyclical Leverage, and Banking Catastrophes

We explore a model of the interaction between banks and outside investors in which the ability of banks to issue inside money (short-term liabilities believed to be convertible into currency at par) can generate a collapse in asset prices and widespread bank insolvency. The banks and investors share a common belief about the future value of certain long-term assets, but they have different obje...

Money, credit and banking

In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits and make nominal loans. We show that in general financial intermediation improves the allocation and t...

Money, Banking, and Finance

Financial Markets , Money , and Banking

■ Abstract The study of financial markets, money, and banking is largely considered the purview of economics. Yet sociologists have contributed greatly to understanding financial relations since the early history of the discipline. This review begins with an overview of classical sociological approaches to financial markets, money, and banking and then describes how research in these areas expl...

Private Money and Banking Regulation ⇤

We show that the regulation of lending practices is desirable for the optimal provision of private money. In an environment in which bankers cannot commit to repay their creditors, neither an unregulated banking system nor a form of narrow banking in which banks hold 100% in reserves can provide the socially efficient amount of money. If bankers provided such an amount, then they would prefer t...