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Money provides liquidity services through a cash-in-advance constraint. The exchange of commodities and assets extends …
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The fiscal theory of price determination asserts that the price level is determined by the ratio of nominal public debt to the present value of real primary surpluses. To show its fragility, we describe a cash-in-advance economy with infinitely lived real productive assets. The fiscal theory...
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Money provides liquidity services through a cash-in-advance constraint. The exchange of commodities and assets extends …
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We define continuous-time dynamics for exchange economies with fiat money. Traders have locally rational expectations … game involving a double-auction with limit-price orders. Money has a positive value except on optimal rest-points where it … nominal variables. Money is not neutral, either in the short-run or long-run, and a localized version of the quantity theory …
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This paper studies the launching of a new fiat currency within a search-theoretic framework. We show that legal tender laws may not be sufficient to guarantee the acceptability of the new currency, and that the withdrawal of a large fraction of the competing currency is essential to avoid the...
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This paper provides a search theoretical model that captures two phenomena that have characterized several episodes of monetary history: currency shortages and the circulation of privately issued notes. As usual in these models, the media of exchange are determined as part of the equilibrium. We...
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demonstrated that money is a measure of generalized power in exchange and a certification of generalized power in subsequent …
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Today all countries have fiat money issued by a central bank. There is no obligation by a central bank to exchange its … money for gold or any other good. Central banks have the monopoly to issue central bank money and have the power to create … their money out of nothing. Creating such a monetary system is functional for a capitalist economy and must be regarded as a …
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The monetary economy has properties that cannot be analyzed using the tools of today's dynamic general equilibrium analysis. Keynes's economics, far from being an aberration in the otherwise orderly evolution of modern macroeconomics from Adam Smith's ideas about the invisible hand, was a major...
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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 …
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