annual wholesale price indexes for the period 1948-76. The data on money shocks are the unanticipated money growth series … results are negative. They reject the hypothesis that unexpected money shocks, as measured by Barro, affect price dispersion …

The traditional model of bank-led financial intermediation, where banks issue demandable deposits to savers and make …% to 13%. Additionally, the share of loans as a percentage of bank assets has fallen from 70% to 55%. We develop a …, and changes in implicit subsidies and costs of bank activities can explain these shifts. Declines in securitization cost …

Lucas (1972) is the pathbreaking analysis of the neutrality and temporary non-neutrality of money. But our central … banks set interest rate targets, and do not even pretend to control money supplies. How is inflation determined under an …

bank leverage and a larger shadow banking sector. At the same time, tighter regulation eliminates the subsidies to …

In recent years, assets of non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) have grown significantly relative to those of …. We argue instead that NBFI and bank businesses and risks are so interwoven that they are better described as having … contingent liquidity risk from the provision of credit lines to NBFIs; and (iii) Empirical work confirms bank-NBFI linkages …