We find that in order to have circulating counterfeit notes as part of the optimal mechanism, there must be heterogeneity of opportunities to create and circulate counterfeit among agents. When such heterogeneity exists, we find that counterfeiting creates distortions at both the intensive and...

This paper is a first step towards a better understanding of the role of multilateral meetings in modern monetary models. We apply the implementability approach to a model à la Lagos and Wright. In the original model, periodic access to the centralized market (i.e., one multilateral meeting...

that an optimum is attained when holdings and aggregate shocks are discrete.

We modify the Diamond-Dybvig [3] model studied in Green and Lin [5] to incorporate a self-interested banker who has a private record-keeping technology. A public record-keeping device does not exist. We find that there is a trade-off between sophisticated contracts that possess relatively good...