Staff Reports
Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy
January 2009 Number 360
JEL classification: G24, E50

Authors: Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin

In a market-based financial system, banking and capital market developments are inseparable, and funding conditions are closely tied to fluctuations in the leverage of market-based financial intermediaries. Offering a window on liquidity, the balance sheet growth of broker-dealers provides a sense of the availability of credit. Contractions of broker-dealer balance sheets have tended to precede declines in real economic growth, even before the current turmoil. For this reason, balance sheet quantities of market-based financial intermediaries are important macroeconomic state variables for the conduct of monetary policy.

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For a published version of this report, see Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin, "Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy," American Economic Review 99, no. 2 (May 2009): 600-605.
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