Recent claims, particularly in Paul Krugman’s column and blog, on the superiority of the Hicks-Modigliani version of Keynesian economics calls for a re-thinking of the issues raised in the early controversies over what Joan Robinson called ”bastard Keynesianism”. ”Good, old-fashioned,...

This paper experimentally investigates whether money illusion generates substantial nominal inertia. Building on the design of Fehr and Tyran (2001), we find no evidence that agents choose high nominal payoffs over high real payoffs. However, participants do select prices associated with high...

This paper examines a mechanism of liquidity-preference fluctuations caused by people's learning behavior. % about the frequency of a liquidity shock. When observing a financial shock, they rationally update their belief so that the subjective probability of encountering it again is higher,...

This paper presents a simple model in which the learning behavior of agents generates fluctuations in money demand and possibly causes a prolonged depression. We consider a stochastic Money-in-Utility model, where agents receive utility from holding money only when a liquidity shock (e.g., a...

We develop a model of monetary exchange that avoids several common criticisms of the recent microfoundations literature. First, rather than random matching, we assume that buyers know the location of all sellers, and hence the process of finding a partner is deterministic, although trade is...

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...

The interrelations between aggregate demand, aggregate supply and the role of price adjustment were investigated as a powerful economic tool for the macroeconomic equilibrium. An assumption was made, that if the aggregate demand is not equal to the aggregate supply, the price level begins to...

An integrated stochastic macroeconomic model of transition economy at the early stage of reforms with optimising representative risk averse agents is constructed. The equilibrium growth rate of the economy,real asset returns, domestic money demand, and expected inflation rate are determined as...

Ekonomi yöneticilerinin çeşitli zamanlarda telaffuz ettikleri “bankacılık sektörü toplam aktifl erinin 2007 yılına kadar USD 500 milyara ulaşacağı” savı irdelenmiştir. Oluşturulan senaryo ışığında banka aktifl erinin 2007 yılında ancak USD 278 milyara yükseldiği...