Martin, Antoine; Schreft, Stacey L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - 2003
This paper establishes the existence of equilibria for environments in which outside money is issued competitively …. Such equilibria are typically believed not to exist because of a classic overissue problem: if money is valued in … equilibrium, an issuer produces money until its value is driven to zero. By backward induction, money cannot have value in the …