This dissertation analyzes the role of money in three distinct environments based on two different modelling approaches. In two chapters, anonymous bilateral meetings create a need for a medium of payment that allows to keep track of consumption expenditures, and in one chapter, taxes must be...

Contributors -- About the co-editors -- Background on George Kaufman's contributions to the finance profession -- Public policy and financial economics : comments to honor George G. Kaufman / Charles L. Evans -- 57 years of banking changes and ideas / Alex J. Pollock -- Theory vs. practice and...