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Informal Credit Markets and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Evidence from South Korea

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This paper is an empirical investigation of the transmission of monetary policy in South Korea. It combines modern mainstream macroeconomics with aspects of a developing economy with financial dualism through a simple IS‐LM type model that explicitly incorporates an informal credit market. Vector autoregression analysis, with both semistructural and structural identifications, confirms the importance of a credit variable as a policy tool. The results show direct credit allocation by the central bank had a significant impact on output, prices, and the interest rate in the informal sector. Previous theoretical and empirical findings of “stagflationary” effects of monetary policy are refuted.

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  • Seth B. Carpenter, 1999. "Informal Credit Markets and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Evidence from South Korea," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 3(3), pages 323-335, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:3:y:1999:i:3:p:323-335
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00071
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