Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy

14 Pages Posted: 22 Jan 2009

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Tobias Adrian

International Monetary Fund

Hyun Song Shin

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Date Written: January 1, 2009

Abstract

In a market-based financial system, banking and capital market developments are inseparable, and funding conditions are closely tied to fluctuations in the leverage of market-based financial intermediaries. Offering a window on liquidity, the balance sheet growth of broker-dealers provides a sense of the availability of credit. Contractions of broker-dealer balance sheets have tended to precede declines in real economic growth, even before the current turmoil. For this reason, balance sheet quantities of market-based financial intermediaries are important macroeconomic state variables for the conduct of monetary policy.

Keywords: credit crisis, monetary policy

JEL Classification: G24, E50

Suggested Citation

Adrian, Tobias and Shin, Hyun Song, Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy (January 1, 2009). FRB of New York Staff Report No. 360, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1331004 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1331004

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Hyun Song Shin

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) ( email )

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Basel, Basel-Stadt 4002
Switzerland

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