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The present work offers a review on two divergent schools of thought regarding the subject of money and highlights why … understanding it is important to grasp the workings and nature of the concept of money. We adopt a spontaneous order perspective on … social institutions, considering money as one. Such framework allows for the construction of axioms from which we formulate …
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There is growing consensus that the conduct of monetary policy can have an impact on financial and economic stability through the risk-taking incentives of banks. Falling interest rates might induce a "search for yield" and generate incentives to invest into risky activities. This paper provides...
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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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not created due to a hold-up problem. Monetary expansion increases buyers' money holdings, and then, dealers are willing …
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goods trade model which also captures trade through time in the form of inside money as used in macro literature on one good … way. -- Inside money ; general equilibrium ; Nash equilibrium ; numerical analysis ; tariff rate …
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In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits...
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methods, and study how each subject makes decisions both on behalf of own money and on behalf of another individual’s money …. We find a weak tendency of lower risk-taking with others' money compared to own money. However, subjects believe that … other participants take more risk with other people's money than with their own. At the same time, subjects on average think …
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Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
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Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...
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