An Endogenous Growth Model of Money, Banking, and Financial Repression
Year: 1996
Type: preprint
Abstract: In this paper, we develop an endogenous growth model with financial intermediation to examine the effects of financial repression on growth, inflation, and welfare. By limiting the liquidity provision, binding reserve requirements always suppress economic growth while their effect on inflation is a function, among other things, of the degree of repression. For example, contrary to previous claims, if financial repression is severe enough so that an informal financial sector emerges, liberalization is inflationary. Notwithstanding, liberalization in these cases is always welfare improving. Finally, we characterize the condition that gives rise to a unique optimal level of binding reserve requirements, i.e., the optimal degree of "moderate" financial repression.
Authors: Marco A. Espinosa‐Vega, Chong K. Yip
Institutions: International Monetary Fund, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W19022730