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We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the...
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This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy captures rents through collective control over state property and job assignment. The model developed here yields the equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling...
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The paper is concerned with instructions as a way of setting premises for subsequent decisions in models of teams à la Marschak-Radner, under information diversification. The paper suggests that instructions can bridge people's differences in knowledge: they do not require mutual understanding...
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As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the … chaotic privately-owned banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues that money is a public … resource that has been hijacked by capitalism. Mary Mellor explores the history of money and modern banking, showing how …
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In this paper I show that a lax anti-counterfeiting policy is inconsistent with price stability. I use a deterministic matching model with no commitment and no enforcement. An intrinsically worthless but perfectly durable object called a ‘note’ can be produced by banks at a given cost, but...
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consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 … case for a money growth rule, and the expectations augmented Phillips curve are then taken up, followed by a discussion of … development of today's mainstream, stochastic, but essentially Walrasian, macroeconomic theory, rooted in his explicit deployment …
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard … decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …
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On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the papers in this publication discuss from different...
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