Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

Número: 
531
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
E32, E44, E52, F41
Palabras clave: 
Financial intermediation, Small open economy, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, Monetary 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