We link banking and asset prices in a simple monetary macroeconomic model. Our main innovation is to consider how wide …-spread default affects the banking system. We find that the interaction of credit, asset prices, and loan losses explains a complete … whether a capital crunch, financial instability, or a banking crisis occurs. But self-fulfilling capital crunches and banking …

banking sector (i.e., institutions that combine the business of money creation with the business of intermediation). In our …