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Reconciling Orthodox and Heterodox Views on Money and Banking

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  • David Andolfatto

    (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

Abstract

"A wide range of heterodox theories claim that banks are special because they create money in the act of lending. Put another way, banks can create the funding they need ex nihilo, whereas all other agencies must first acquire the funding they need from other parties. Mainstream economic theory largely agrees with this assessment, but questions its theoretical and empirical relevance, preferring to view banks as one of many potentially important actors in the financial market. In this paper, I develop a formal economic model in an attempt to make these ideas precise. The model lends some support to both views on banking."

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  • David Andolfatto, 2018. "Reconciling Orthodox and Heterodox Views on Money and Banking," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 10(4), pages 351-370, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ren:journl:v:10:y:2018:i:4:p:351-370
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    1. Dirk Niepelt, 2020. "Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics," Working Papers 20.05, Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee.
    2. Ostapenko, V. & Buglevsky, E., 2022. "Money supply in the history of macroeconomic thought: 50 shades of endogeneity," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, vol. 55(3), pages 156-176.
    3. Brunnermeier, Markus K. & Niepelt, Dirk, 2019. "On the equivalence of private and public money," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 27-41.
    4. Christian Wipf, 2020. "Should Banks Create Money?," Diskussionsschriften dp2015, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
    5. Rösl, Gerhard, 2024. "A present value concept for measuring welfare," IMFS Working Paper Series 203, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS).

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    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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