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goods. But available evidence is at least as consistent, if not more so, with an alternative where individuals are 'time … or more higher than that implied by the traditional model. And we estimate that cigarette excise taxes are much less …
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We present an infinite horizon model with capital in which fiat money and barter are two competing means of payment. Fiat money has value because barter is limited by the extent of a double coincidence of wants. The pattern of exchange generally involves both money and barter. We find that the...
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Which monetary regime is associated with the most stable price level? A commodity money regime such as the classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But critics of the day argued that the regime was associated with too much short-run price variability and...
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The paper provides a formalisation of the monetary folk proposition that fiat base money is an asset of the holder but not a liability of the issuer. The issuance of irredeemable fiat base money can have pure fiscal effects on private demand. With irredeemable fiat base money, weak restrictions...
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valuable consumption and production goods. As Hahn (1965) shows, this situation puts fiat money's market value or liquidity …. I call this view the Price Theory of Money; (2) fixed-income assets linked to fiat money, especially if they are …
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Can competition among privately issued fiat currencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum work? Only sometimes. To show this, we build a model of competition among privately issued fiat currencies. We modify the current workhorse of monetary economics, the Lagos-Wright environment, by including...
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theory of law, our finding that the public courts do not automatically generate efficient rules is disappointing, since it … strongly influenced by economic considerations and explicable in economic terms, is evidence that economic theory has a major …
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Incomplete product availability is an important feature of many markets; ignoring changes in availability may bias demand estimates. We study a new dataset from a wireless inventory system installed on 54 vending machines to track product availability every four hours. The data allow us to...
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Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and … home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home … different expenditure allocation across countries, which leads to different inflation rates when measured in the same currency …
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Many papers in the recent literature in open economy macroeconomics make different assumptions about the currency in … which firms set their export prices when nominal prices must be pre-set. But to date, all of these studies take the currency … can choose the currency in which they set prices for sales to foreign markets. We make two alternative assumptions about …
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