The quantity theory of money is applied to the paper money regimes of seven of the nine British North American colonies … tested. Little to no statistical relationship, and little to no magnitude of influence, between the quantities of paper money … in circulation and prices are found. The failure of the quantity theory of money to explain the value and performance of …

I decompose Virginia's paper money into expected real-asset present value, risk discount, and transaction premium or … "moneyness" value. The value of Virginia's paper money was determined primarily by its real-asset present value. The transaction … premium was small. Positive risk discounts occurred in years when treasurer malfeasance was suspected. Virginia's paper money …

We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction … new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency as an alternative to the pre-existing money supply, which consisted of … this new type of stable, federally-backed money as a natural experiment, we show that places gaining access to the new …

An indexed unit of account is a money analogue, used to express prices; the unit's" purchasing power is defined by an … index. Indexed units of account are not true money in that" they are not used as a medium of exchange. The first successful … units to be used for" all transactions, so that the role of conventional money might be reduced to clearing-house" functions …

We present an infinite horizon model with capital in which fiat money and barter are two competing means of payment …. Fiat money has value because barter is limited by the extent of a double coincidence of wants. The pattern of exchange … generally involves both money and barter. We find that the Chicago rule is sufficient for Pareto efficiency, while nominal …

The quality of the money stock declined during the banking crises of the early 1930s. Bank deposits did not serve as a … medium of exchange. This paper presents some evidence to show that the decline in the quality of the money stock contributed …

annual wholesale price indexes for the period 1948-76. The data on money shocks are the unanticipated money growth series … results are negative. They reject the hypothesis that unexpected money shocks, as measured by Barro, affect price dispersion …

magnitude of the unperceived money growth. The testing of this hypothesis requires two preliminary steps. First, a price … unperceived money growth. This estimation implies the postulation of an available information set and also a function relating the … variables in this set to money creation. The function used was based on considerations related to government demand for revenue …

We formulate a generalization of the traditional medium-of-exchange function of money in contexts where there is … that the option to settle transactions directly with money strengthens the stance of sellers of goods and services vis … "latent money demand" considerations imply monetary policy remains effective through medium-of-exchange channels even if the …