order to generate a role for money and intermediation. We ask whether there is any reason to expect the emergence of a … banking sector (i.e., institutions that combine the business of money creation with the business of intermediation). In our … model the unique equilibrium is characterized, in part, by the existence of an agent that: (1) creates money (a debt …

. Unlike physical capital, intermediated claims are assumed to be liquid-they constitute a form of asset-backed money. The … strictly positive inflation. While it is also possible to implement the first-best by introducing at money and a lump- sum tax …

cyclical fluctuations in inflation and nominal interest rates. …