Political Intervention and Monetary Transmission: A Theoretical Note

Abstract

Within a theoretical framework, the paper analyzes the impact of government intervention in the credit market on bank lending. The results indicate that in the short-run, a monetary expansion lowers lending that is not susceptible to political intervention by a magnitude that is higher than loans that are impacted by political influence. In the long run, a monetary expansion is observed to uniformly raise bank lending, consistent with the jawboning hypothesis.