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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>What are the limits on Commercial Bank Lending? · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0904.1426/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0904.1426/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>What are the limits on Commercial Bank Lending? — mentioned by jplewicke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203987</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:0904.1426:1203987</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:41:01 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for pointing this out. Our problem now is that even with reserve requirements, banks can use securitization to expand the money supply infinitely: http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1426 . Reserve requirement aren&amp;#x27;t normally the binding constraints on banks, but they might have helped prevent some pathological situations in the past. The rise of shadow banking has shown that they are no longer a sufficient constraint.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0904.1426/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-fin.GN</category></item><item><title>What are the limits on Commercial Bank Lending? — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=572056</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:0904.1426:572056</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:40:41 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;The Infinite Loan Machine : the effect of loan securitization on banking&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0904.1426/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-fin.GN</category></item></channel></rss>
