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Horizontalism: A Critique

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This article offers a critique of the horizontalist view of money that banks are passive in the face of credit demand. It is argued that banks' liquidity preference influences their responsiveness to the demand for credit. Their liquidity preference is expressed in risk assessment (understood in terms of John Maynard Keynes's theory of uncertainty). It is argued that rationing in the sense of adverse changes in risk assessment occurs systematically in the downturn of the business cycle. Systematic rationing also occurs with respect to particular classes of borrowers; the focus here is on the case of small firms. (c) 1996 Academic Press Limited Copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Dow, Sheila C, 1996. "Horizontalism: A Critique," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 20(4), pages 497-508, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:20:y:1996:i:4:p:497-508
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    3. Bill Lucarelli, 2011. "The Economics of Financial Turbulence," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14252.
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    11. Cavalieri, Duccio, 2015. "On stock-flow consistent approaches and the like: the ‘rediscovery’ of model building," MPRA Paper 67050, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 02 Oct 2015.
    12. Aleš Krejdl, 2003. "Alternativní postkeynesovské modely determinace peněžní zásoby [Alternative post-keynesian models of money supply determination]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2003(2), pages 263-285.
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    15. Man-Seop Park, 2004. "Credit money and Kaldor's 'institutional' theory of income distribution," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 79-99.

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