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New Monetarist Economics: Models
, 2010
"... The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the models used in New Monetarist Economics, which is our label for a body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understa ..."
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the models used in New Monetarist Economics, which is our label for a body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understanding monetary issues. We survey recent papers on monetary theory, showing how they build on common foundations. We then lay out a tractable benchmark version of the model that allows us to address a variety of issues. We use it to analyze some classic economic topics, like the welfare effects of inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model in new ways, and show how it can be used to generate new insights in the study of payments, banking, and asset markets.
Anonymous Markets and Monetary Trading
- Journal of Monetary Economics
, 2006
"... ABSTRACT: We study infinite-horizon monetary economies characterized by trading frictions that originate from random pairwise meetings, and commitment and enforcement limitations. We prove that introducing occasional trade in “centralized markets ” opens the door to an informal enforcement scheme th ..."
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ABSTRACT: We study infinite-horizon monetary economies characterized by trading frictions that originate from random pairwise meetings, and commitment and enforcement limitations. We prove that introducing occasional trade in “centralized markets ” opens the door to an informal enforcement scheme that sustains a non-monetary efficient allocation. All is required is that trading partners ’ be patient and their actions be observable. We then present a matching environment in which trade may occur in large markets and yet agents ’ trading paths cross at most once. This allows the construction of models in which infinitely-lived agents trade on competitive markets in which money plays an essential role.
Efficiency Improvement from Restricting the Liquidity of Nominal Bonds ∗
"... This paper provides a normative theory of partially illiquid bonds jointly with optimal monetary policy. The model has a centralized asset market and a decentralized goods market. Individuals face matching shocks which affect the marginal utility of consumption and which they cannot insure, borrow o ..."
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This paper provides a normative theory of partially illiquid bonds jointly with optimal monetary policy. The model has a centralized asset market and a decentralized goods market. Individuals face matching shocks which affect the marginal utility of consumption and which they cannot insure, borrow or trade assets against. The government imposes a legal restriction to prohibit nominal bonds from being used as a means of payments in a subset of trades. We show that this partial legal restriction can improve the society’s welfare. In contrast to the literature, the efficiency role of the restriction exists in the steady state and it does not require the households to be able to trade assets after receiving the shocks. Moreover, even when lump-sum taxes are available, the efficiency role continues to exist under a condition that induces optimal money growth to be above the Friedman rule.
Financial sophistication and the distribution of the welfare cost of inflation. Working
, 2009
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On the societal benefits of illiquid bonds
, 2009
"... Copyright belongs to the author. Small sections of the text, not exceeding three paragraphs, can be used provided proper acknowledgement is given. The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) was established in March 2007. RCEA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to independent researc ..."
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Copyright belongs to the author. Small sections of the text, not exceeding three paragraphs, can be used provided proper acknowledgement is given. The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) was established in March 2007. RCEA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to independent research in Applied and Theoretical Economics and related fields. RCEA organizes seminars and workshops, sponsors a general interest journal The Review of Economic Analysis, and organizes a biennial conference: Small Open Economies in the Globalized World (SOEGW). Scientific work contributed by the RCEA Scholars is published in the RCEA Working Papers series. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to
A random matching theory
- Games and Economic Behavior
, 2006
"... ABSTRACT: We develop theoretical underpinnings of pairwise random matching processes. We formalize the mechanics of matching, and study the links between properties of the different processes and trade frictions. A particular emphasis is placed on providing a mapping between matching technologies an ..."
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ABSTRACT: We develop theoretical underpinnings of pairwise random matching processes. We formalize the mechanics of matching, and study the links between properties of the different processes and trade frictions. A particular emphasis is placed on providing a mapping between matching technologies and informational constraints.
Welfare Improvement from Restricting the Liquidity
, 2006
"... In this paper I examine whether a society can improve welfare by imposing a legal restric-tion to forbid the use of nominal bonds as a means of payments for goods. To do so, I integrate a microfounded model of money with the framework of limited participation. While the asset market is Walrasian, th ..."
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In this paper I examine whether a society can improve welfare by imposing a legal restric-tion to forbid the use of nominal bonds as a means of payments for goods. To do so, I integrate a microfounded model of money with the framework of limited participation. While the asset market is Walrasian, the goods market is decentralized and the legal restriction is imposed only in a fraction of the trades. I show that the legal restriction can improve the society’s welfare. In contrast to the literature, this essential role of the legal restriction persists even in the steady state and it does not rely on households ’ ability to trade unmatured bonds for money after observing the taste (or endowment) shocks.
The Societal Benefits of Outside Versus Inside Bonds.” University of Basel working paper
- 39 Clews, R
, 2006
"... When agents are cash constrained, two options exist — borrow or sell assets. We compare the welfare properties of these options in two economies: in one, agents can borrow (issue inside bonds) and in the other they can sell ‘illiquid ’ government bonds (outside bonds). All transactions are voluntary ..."
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When agents are cash constrained, two options exist — borrow or sell assets. We compare the welfare properties of these options in two economies: in one, agents can borrow (issue inside bonds) and in the other they can sell ‘illiquid ’ government bonds (outside bonds). All transactions are voluntary, implying no taxation or forced redemption of private debt. We show that any allocation in the economy with inside bonds can be replicated in the economy with outside bonds. Moreover, under the best policies, the allocation with outside bonds strictly dominates the allocation with inside bonds. ∗The paper has benefitted from comments by participants at several seminar and conference presentations. We
Anonymous Markets and Monetary Trading Comments
, 2007
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Part of the Economics Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Economics at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Economics Faculty Articles and Research by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please