This paper presents an analysis of a recently invented new form of price regulation. An index of prices of monopolistically supplied goods must never exceed the retail price index minus X. The main results of the chapter are as follows: (i) If the constant X is politically chosen, price-cap...

We analyze the allocative role of money as a numeraire in an intertemporal general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and nominal financial instruments. It is shown that regardless of their return specification nominal assets in net supply increase the consumption risk and...