Real liquidity refers to the real purchasing power of the monetary base. In an economy where banks only take money as deposits, insufficient real liquidity constrains the price level when there is a liquidity shock before banks settle their long-term loan contracts. This leads to strictly...

Introducing shadow banks into the economy lowers the money supply measured as the sum of cash and deposits, while the amount of payment liquidity does not decrease as long as the liabilities of shadow banks remain fully liquid. At the same time, the total amount of credit available to firms...