Baughman, Garth; Rabinovich, Stanislav - 2018
dispersion reduces welfare by creating mismatch between posted prices and money balances. Inflation exacerbates this welfare loss … 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 …