The author considers recent proposals that the government should attempt to stabilize the nominal value of a CPI futures contract. Under a variety of conditions, arbitrageurs will break the peg and bankrupt the central bank, the central bank ends up in a gaming problem with private traders, or...

During the "free banking" era in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland, there were a number of legal restrictions affecting the evolution of the system. Scottish banking was characterized by restrictions on small-denomination and interest-bearing notes. There were also restrictions...

Artists face choices between the pecuniary benefits of selling to the market and the nonpecuniary benefits of creating to please their own tastes. We examine how changes in wages, lump-sum income, and capital-labor ratios affect the artist’s pursuit of self-satisfaction versus market sales....

The authors argue that Keynes's treatment of the 'Essential Properties of Interest and Money' in Chapter 17 of 'The General Theory' can provide microfoundations for Keynesian explanations of business cycle fluctuations. They focus on how the nature of money's liquidity premium may generate...