In this article, the discussion on quality levels in the monetary search theoretical model is extended. By having quality levels endogenously determined, we found that whether money holders have quality preferences is crucial to the results. While the effect of the fraction of money on quality...

New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level is too high because firms ignore an aggregate demand externality, and when there are costs of changing prices, price stickiness may be an equilibrium response to changes in...

New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level is too high because firms ignore an aggregate demand externality, and when there are costs of changing prices, price stickiness may be an equilibrium response to changes in...