Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
531
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E32, E44, E52, F41
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper analyses the role of a costly financial system in the transmission of monetary policy. The new-keynesian model for a small open economy is extended with a simple financial system based on Hamann and Oviedo (2006). The presence of the financial