ECON1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Loanable Funds, Financial Intermediary, Economic Equilibrium

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TOPIC 5B THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
- Lender selling bond to borrow directly.
- Financial intermediary is a bank. More than a broker funds are channelled through. Heavily
involved in the financial markets.
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funds in Australia. Like a bank.
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- Total credit of banks share vs other companies how important direct finance vs indirect financie.
- In US direct finance is much more important than indirect finance. Indirect is more important in
Japan and Germany where banks play a much larger role in allocating credit, financial mkts are less
important. WHY? History, cultural factors, etc.
MARKET FOR LOANABLE FUNDS MODEL
- Obviously, the process of allocating savings across time periods requires some further explanation.
- There is value to being able to trade 'surplus' funds across time periods and hence there must be
some 'price' for this.
- How is that 'price' set and how is the amount of loanable funds available in an economy ultimately
determined?
- There is a standard neoclassical model of this the loanable funds model. There is a supply and
demand for surplus funds as mediated through the financial sector (or more simply the banking
sector) and an equilibrium price and quantity of money that results.
COMPARITIVE STATISITCS
- This loanable funds model is just like any other supply and demand micro-economic model and we
can use our general method of applying ceteris paribus changes to see predicted outcomes.
- So imagine a 'shock' coming from a technical change that increases the demand for loanable funds,
e.g. a shift to computerisation that requires a big investment now.
- As we can see this 'shock' increases the cost of money, i.e. the real interest rate.
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