id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt tt44pk05j9v Ronald Mau Financial Intermediation, Monetary Policy, and Macroeconomics 1904 .txt text/plain 354 14 41 Chapter 1 investigates the role commercial banks play in this relationship by (i) providing business cycle facts for commercial bank balance sheet items (quantities) and balance sheet shares (allocation) along with standard macroeconomic business cycle facts and (ii) characterizing commercial bank responses to monetary policy shocks using local projection methods. A key result is the substitution by commercial banks between liability types in response to monetary policy shocks. cache/tt44pk05j9v.txt txt/tt44pk05j9v.txt