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given money circulates internationally. We show the value of a given currency rises if it circulates abroad, and falls if … foreign money circulates locally. Also, we show that international monies have more value at home than abroad. These results …
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describing the frictions necessary to construct a model where money has an essential role, they conclude by reviewing many …
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We extend the analysis of Kiyotaki and Wright, who study an economy in which the different commodities that serve as media of exchange are determined endogenously. Kiyotaki and Wright consider only symmetric, steady-state, pure-strategy equilibria, and find that for some parameter values no such...
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We study the effects of money (anticipated inflation) on capital formation. Previous papers on this topic adopt reduced …-form approaches, putting money in the utility function or imposing cash in advance, but use otherwise frictionless models. We follow a … literature that is more explicit about the frictions making money essential. This introduces several new elements, including a …
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We study economies with multiple assets that are valued both for their return and liquidity. Exchange occurs in decentralized markets with frictions making a medium of exchange essential. Some assets are better suited for this role because they are more liquid - more likely to be accepted in...
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Search-theoretic models of monetary exchange are based on explicit descriptions of the frictions that make money …
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Conventional wisdom is that inflation makes people spend money faster, trying to get rid of it like a “hot potato,” and ….e., we focus on the extensive rather than intensive margin - and prove buyers always spend their money faster when inflation …
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This essay articulates the principles and practices of New Monetarism, our label for a recent body of work on money …
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