recognition to the intertemporal nature of households' saving decisions. Like traditional IS-LM, however, the optimizing version … tends to understate the value of money as an indicator for monetary policy. …

high priority needs in the life, and smaller needs can be subsequent, for progressive happiness. Money cannot bring …

rate. Money’s role in monetary policy has been tertiary, at best. Indeed, several influential economists have suggested … that money is irrelevant for monetary policy. They suggest that central banks can control inflation by (i) controlling a … rate in order to exert greater control over longer-term rates. I offer an alternative perspective: namely, that money is …

-theoretic environment with divisible money and goods. We find that in such a setting, a positive feedback between work and shopping effort …This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general … equilibrium model where search frictions motivate the transactions role of money. The use of a multiple matching technique, where …

inside and outside money does and does not allow the economy to achieve a first-best allocation of resources. We also study …

inside and outside money does and does not allow the economy to achieve a first-best allocation of resources. We also study …

. Money as a social representative of value, therefore, is introduced at the very beginning of Marx’s microeconomics. Marx …’s rejection of Ricardo’s interpretation of Say’s Law requires that money as a means of circulation and as a means of payment is … realisation of profits for the capitalist class as a whole requires money advances, which have to increase by means of rising …

frictions giving rise to money as a medium of exchange are explicitly modeled. The framework is a three period OLG model where … production efficiency in the search market. In the absence of record-keeping, the government uses flat money as a substitute for … distortionary taxation of money may be needed as part of the optimal policy even if lump-sum taxes are available. …