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We study models incorporating money, household production, and investment in housing. Inflation, as a tax on market … activity, encourages substitution into household production, and thus investment in household capital. Hence, inflation … the channel is economically relevant. We also show models with home production imply higher costs of inflation than models …
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The classical and early neoclassical economists knew that the essential function of money was its role as a medium of … economics: the interaction between specialization and exchange, dual fiat currency regimes, the welfare improving role of money …
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A price dispersion equation is tested with data from the German hyper-inflation. The equation is derived from a version … magnitude of the unperceived money growth. The testing of this hypothesis requires two preliminary steps. First, a price … unperceived money growth. This estimation implies the postulation of an available information set and also a function relating the …
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We formulate a generalization of the traditional medium-of-exchange function of money in contexts where there is … that the option to settle transactions directly with money strengthens the stance of sellers of goods and services vis … "latent money demand" considerations imply monetary policy remains effective through medium-of-exchange channels even if the …
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countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …This paper investigates whether the quantity theory of money is still alive. We demonstrate three insights. First, for …
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For over a century, economists and policy makers have debated the relative merits of bank-based versus market-based financial systems. Recent research, however, argues that classifying countries as bank-based or market is not a very fruitful way to distinguish financial systems. This paper...
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Are market-based or bank-based financial systems better at financing the expansion of industries that depend heavily on external finance, facilitating the formation of new establishments, and improving the efficiency of capital allocation across industries? We find evidence for neither the...
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The empirical relationship between capital controls and the financial development of credit and equity markets is examined. We extend the literature on this subject along a number of dimensions. Specifically, we (1) investigate a substantially broader set of proxy measures of financial...
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We develop a model of informal financial networks and present corroborating evidence by studying the role of professional property brokers in the U.S. commercial real estate market. Our model demonstrates how service intermediaries, who do not supply finance themselves, can facilitate their...
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This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of...
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