Twenty years ago, most banking courses focused on either management or monetary aspects of banking, with no connecting. Since then, a microeconomic theory of banking has developed, mainly through a switch of emphasis from the modeling of risk to the modeling of imperfect information. This...

Over the last thirty years, a new paradigm in banking theory has overturned economists' traditional vision of the banking sector. The asymmetric information model, extremely powerful in many areas of economic theory, has proven useful in banking theory both for explaining the role of banks in...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Financial Intermediaries -- 3 The Industrial Organization Approach to Banking -- 4 The Lender-Borrower Relationship -- 5 Equilibrium in the Credit Market and Its Macroeconomic Implications -- 6 The Macroeconomic...