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John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory, Kregel argued that such rejection leaves the relation between money and …
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In one of the most famous passages of economic literature, John Maynard Keynes (1936, p.156) likens the stock market to … equilibrium at which every player chooses zero, and every player wins. Keynes’ metaphor, on the other hand, referred to a …
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Several investment decisions deal with non-marketable assets. Nonmarketable assets are available only to one investor and are often indivisible. This has relevant consequences on investor investment opportunities. Adhering to a mean variance representation of the investment space and considering...
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Hayek (1984,1990) suggested an alternative to the current fiat money regime, which entails concurrent banks who issue their own money and operators concerned of purchasing power who select the less inflated money. Friedman (1984) opposed that network effects dominate purchasing power...
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Keynes implicitly used the concept of duration to analyze the impacts of expected changes in the price of a perpetual … bond and coupon payments that led to his “square rule.” Keynes's result (“square rule”), derived from the breakeven … investor's portfolio, constrained to money and consols. Keynes's world is not one of yield, but one of total return, where …
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This paper describes the main cross fertilizations between monetary theory and portfolio theory, which characterized the origins and evolution of the latter. In addition, we explore the critics and controversies arising from the seminal works of Markowitz and Tobin, as well as the new generation...
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From ancient ages gold is treasured as preferred investment choice of people across the globe and especially in India it is highest. Indian consumers regard gold jewellery as an investment and as a store of value. Gold is also recognized as a form of money in India, a tradable liquid asset. It...
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Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new...
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This study presents empirical evidence on the long-run motives for holding euro area money by focusing on the role of equity and labour markets. Equity positively affects money demand through wealth effects, as equities are a significant store of household wealth and thus part of a financial...
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I argue here that the cash asset proportion falls with increased wealth using data from the 1962 Survey of Consumer Finances. This result is at odds with what would be expected under Arrow's Increasing Relative Risk Aversion hypothesis and is also at odds with Friedman's assertions that money is...
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