In Interest and Prices Woodford employs a frictionless model to derive nominal interest rate rules that can be applied by central banks to achieve price level stability. But frictionless models are Walrasian general equilibrium models that preclude any role for money. Furthermore frictionless...

There has been no Keynesian Revolution in economic theory but there has been an unacknowledged Keynes's Revolution in economic policy. Keynes's theoretical revolution rested on the adoption of monetary analysis and the application of the principle of effective demand to demonstrate the existence...

Woodford employs an inter-temporal general equilibrium model to examine the properties of the monetary system as it evolves form the use of a physical medium of exchange to an electronic medium. He presents a structure in which cash as a means of payment can be made to vanish at the limit but...

The paper examines two proposals for automatic stabilization of the price level based on indirect convertibility and something called a 'quasi-futures contacts'. These two schemes represent attempts to rendre operational ideas implicit in the Black (1970) Fama (1980) and Hall (1982) vision of...

No. As well-specified Walrasian general equilibrium systems, frictionless models are isomorphic with the Arrow-Debreu (A-D) world. It is well known that the A-D world has no role for money, credit or banks. Grafting a role for money onto a frictionless model by appending a quantity equation or...

Wallace attempts to analyse central bank interest rate control in a cashless, Arrow-Debreu economy. The model incorporates only the unit of account function of money and exhibits a version of the classical dichotomy in which arbitrary accounting prices are independent of the equilibrium real...

Cochrane (2005) employs a well specified Walrasian general equilibrium model to defend the fiscal theory of the price level against two forms of criticism; that: (1) it implies the violation of Walras's Law and, (2) the completely cashless, frictionless version of the model cannot determine the...

The theoretical analysis of Japan's liquidity trap is developed by Krugman (1998a,b,c; 1999) in terms of both an ''intertemporal maximization'' framework and an ''absolutely conventional open economy IS-LM model''. In this note I examine the latter version of the story and argue that Krugman's...

This paper examines two proposals for automatic stabilization of the price level based on indirect convertibility and something called a 'quasi futures contract'. These two schemes represent attempts to render operational ideas implicit in the Black (1970) Fama (1980) and Hall (1982) vision of...