This paper provides a simple model of fragility in which recession, triggered by demand for high-powered money, generates a liquidity trap. Moreover, in this liquidity trap parable, it is its assured store of value that is the critical attribute of high-powered money and not, perhaps, "liquidity...

This paper attempts to combine important insights on matching models of money with insights from the macroeconomic coordination game-technological complementarity literature. One important old insight, but which has been refined lately, is that money is imperfect information. Further, one simple...