CONCEPTUAL PREREQUISITES FOR BANKING ACTIVITY IN REAL ECONOMY

• Authors: Slazak Emil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper characterizes the main theoretical models which suggest that despite the outcomes of the Arrow-Debreu model suggesting that banks have no grounds for their existence in the real economy. However, borrowers and lenders still prefer to deal through banks as financial intermediaries. The paper includes traditional reasons for banking activity increasing the utility functions of borrowers and lenders by covering a number of gaps in their contradictory preferences. Moreover, the paper presents further reasons for banking activity such as liquidity insurance, information-sharing coalitions, delegated monitoring and transaction costs.

Keywords

EN

ARROW-DEBREU MODEL; REASONS FOR BANKING ACTIVITY

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Journal: Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 3(43)
• Pages: 168-178
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Slazak Emil

• Emil Slazak, Szkola Glówna Handlowa w Warszawie, Katedra Bankowosci, al. Niepodleglosci 162, 02-554 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA074225