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Cross-Border Credit Intermediation and Domestic Liquidity Provision in a Small Open Economy

By Thorvardur Tjoervi Olafsson

September 11, 2018

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Thorvardur Tjoervi Olafsson. Cross-Border Credit Intermediation and Domestic Liquidity Provision in a Small Open Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper develops a small open economy model where global and domestic liquidity is intermediated to the corporate sector through two financial processes. Investment banks intermediate cross-border credit through interlinked debt contracts to entrepreneurs and commercial banks intermediate domestic savings to liquidity constrained final good producers. Both processes are needed to facilitate development of key production inputs. The model captures procyclical investment bank leverage dynamics, global liquidity spillovers, domestic money market pressures, and macrofinancial linkages through which shocks propagate across the two processes, affecting spreads and balance sheets, as well as the real economy through investment and working capital channels.

Subject: Commercial banks, Credit, Domestic credit, Financial institutions, Financial services, Investment banking, Labor, Money, Self-employment

Keywords: Capital producer, Central bank, Commercial bank funding, Commercial banks, Cost of funds, Credit, Credit contracts, Credit market, Cross-border banking flows, Depreciation rate, Domestic credit, East Asia, Financial frictions, Financial intermediation, Funding rate reaction, Global, Idiosyncratic productivity, Interest rate, Investment banking, Investment banking, Liquidity shock, Macrofinancial linkages, Money market, Monopolistic investment banks, Self-employment, Working capital, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2018/202

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2018202

  • ISBN:

    9781484373354

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941