simultaneous search or any heterogeneity in preferences, production costs, or search technologies. A distribution of money holdings … price distribution, in turn, makes buyers indifferent across a range of money balances, rationalizing the non …-degenerate distribution of money holdings. We completely characterize the distribution of posted prices and money holdings in any equilibrium …

merits of the "money view" and "credit view" as accounts of macroeconomic outcomes. Our own analysis of the postwar evidence … suggests that money outperforms credit in predicting economic downturns in the 14 countries in Schularick and Taylor's dataset …. This contrasts with Schularick and Taylor's (2012) highly negative verdict on the money view. In accounting for the …