Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system …) costs from monitoring, aggregate lending to bank-dependent firms is inefficiently low. A monetary system with bank money … creation alleviates this problem, as banks can initiate lending by creating bank deposits without relying on household funding …