We revisit classic questions concerning the effects of money on investment in a new framework: a two-sector model where …

analyze an economy where there is no transaction demand for money balances: Money is a mere unit of account. We determine a … transaction role for money. In the absence of menu costs, the Friedman rule is optimal. In the presence of menu costs, the optimal …

I study random-matching economies where at money coexists with real assets, and no restrictions are imposed on payment … the usefulness of at money. The liquidity of the real asset, as measured by its transaction velocity, is shown to depend …

goal of targeting inflation rates. A central theme of all three works is the desirability of abstracting from money demand … in the analysis of monetary policy. In our review we focus the bulk of our discussion on the absence of money in these …

model with divisible money, we show how this choice matters for important results such as the ability of the optimal …