We develop a dynamic learning model to study money adoption. Agents own an asset that can potentially serve as money. The asset steadily generates stochastic dividends which can be positive or negative. Agents gradually learn about the distribution of dividends and based on the learning outcomes...

This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...