This paper offers a basic overview of the practical aspects of money creation. A brief presentation of the history of money and a critical summary of the commonly accepted theories highlight the current understanding of the emergence and operating characteristics of money in the modern economy....

We introduce banks in a model of money and capital with trading frictions. Banks offer demand deposit contracts and hold primary assets to maximize depositors' utility. If banks' operating costs are small, banks reallocate liquidity eliminating idle balances and improving the allocation. At...

The theory of endogenous money is the cornerstone of Post-Keynesian economics, which dates back to the pioneering writings of authors such as J. Robinson, Kaldor and Kalecki. Second generation Post-Keynesians such as Paul Davidson and Basil Moore have clearly drawn the boundaries of...

This paper analyzes the implications of distributional contrast for the monetary theory of distribution. The first step is to try to introduce the banking sector within Pivetti's monetary distribution theory approach. Pivetti in fact does not analyze the links between the central bank and the...

Does targeted financial development favor small firms or large ones? And how do resulting changes in the distribution of firm size affect aggregate outcomes? We assess the macroeconomic implications of known stylized facts from the finance literature regarding firm size and financial frictions...

At the forefront of macroeconomic research on the causes of the Great Financial Cri- sis (GFC) was and still is the usage of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. To capture the nonlinearities of the GFC, these models were enriched with a variety of financial frictions. This...

Given the background of financial disintermediation and interest rate marketization, the assets of China’s commercial banks can be divided into traditional credit assets, whose rates of return are controlled by the supervision department, and financial assets, whose rates of return fluctuate...

We propose a new theoretical model of the large-scale banking system of an open economy. It is shown that distribution of relative sizes of individual banks is stable over time and does not depend on the volume of deposits. Our findings provide an additional argument in favor of use of the...

In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Wernhard Möschel, Universität Tübingen, mit den staatlichen Verantwortlichkeiten für die Finanzkrise auseinander und diskutiert die staatlichen Maßnahmen bzw. Vorschläge zu ihrer Behebung.

Seit dem Frühjahr 2003 erhebt das ifo Institut in seinen regelmäßigen Konjunkturumfragen bei deutschen Unternehmen der gewerblichen Wirtschaft Aussagen zur Kreditvergabe der Banken. Die Sonderfrage zur Kreditvergabe wurde bis zum August dieses Jahres halbjährlich gestellt, wird aber ab jetzt...