Menzio, Guido; Shi, Shouyong; Sun, Hongfei - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011
monetary theory for tractability reasons. In this paper, we fill in this gap by constructing a tractable search model of money … with a non-degenerate distribution of money holdings. We assume search to be directed in the sense that buyers know the … terms of trade before visiting particular sellers. Directed search makes the monetary steady state block recursive in the …