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Systèmes financiers et canaux de transmission de la politique monétaire

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This dissertation analyses the consequences of transformations in the financial sphere on the transmission channels of decisions in monetary policy in industrialized countries over the past several years. We observe that as a result of these transformations, banking institutions have evolved from an originate to hold model to an originate to distribute model. This has enabled banks to turn more toward derivative products and credit risk transfer instruments. We demonstrate that these techniques of active/passive management have completely revolutionized the theoretical foundations of traditional channels and in particular the credit channel. Our analysis of these landmark changes is organized into two parts. The first part reveals, using the principle of the financial accelerator, the manner in which the partial disconnection between the growth of the credit offer and that of banking deposits tends to reinforce the credit channel. This reinforcement flies in the face of expectations, given that the key hypotheses formulated by Bernanke and Blinder (1988) have been undermined by financial innovations. The second part of the dissertation uses empirical studies to demonstrate how the interest rate channel has been reinforced thanks to growing financialization in the industrialized economies and to the flexibility of the operational framework of monetary policy.