The Cost Channel of Monetary TransmissionMarvin J. Barth III, Valerie A. Ramey
NBER Working Paper No. 7675 This paper presents evidence that the cost channel' may be an important part of the monetary transmission mechanism. We argue that if working capital is an essential component of production and distribution, monetary contractions can affect output through a supply channel as well as the traditional demand-type channels. We specify an industry equilibrium model and use it to interpret the results of a VAR analysis. We find that following a monetary contraction, many industries exhibit periods of falling output and rising price-wage ratios, consistent with a supply shock in our model. We also show that the effects are noticeably more pronounced during the period before 1979.
An NBER digest for this paper is available. Published: The Cost Channel of Monetary Transmission, Marvin J. Barth III, Valerie A. Ramey, in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001, Volume 16 (2002), MIT Press This paper is available as PDF (452 K) or via email.
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