Based on an historical study of the cigarette money episode, we construct a commodity money model that explain the different types of means of payments used in post WW 2 Germany. After having shown that the basic features of exchanges were close to the assumptions of the search-theoretic...

The selection of the monetary equilibrium in the search-theoretic approach to money remains an open question. This paper introduces a population heterogeneity in a simple search model to study how the use of money by a subset of agents can spread itself to the economy through the bootstrap...