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Relationship Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

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  • Kinda Hachem

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This paper demonstrates that the banking notion of relationship lending matters for the transmission of monetary policy. I first construct an asymmetric information model with a continuum of heterogeneous borrowers and the possibility of lender learning through repeated interactions. I then derive the optimal credit contracts in this environment and analyze their implications for aggregate output. A variety of contracts are observed in equilibrium, with sufficiently good borrowers entering into multi-period lending relationships and economies that can sustain these relationships exhibiting a smoother steady state output profile and a more gradual response to certain monetary shocks. The results are consistent with empirical evidence so the model provides a basis for investigating the proportion of cross-country differences in monetary transmission that can be explained by cross-country differences in relationship lending.

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  • Kinda Hachem, 2010. "Relationship Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy," 2010 Meeting Papers 1096, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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