TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal money creation in "pure currency" economies
T2 - A conjecture
AU - Wallace, Neil
N1 - Funding Information:
*I am indebted to Wataru Nozawa and Hoonsik Yang for research assistance and to the Human Capital Foundation for financial support. Preliminary versions of this paper were presented at seminars at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Minneapolis, and Richmond and at Penn State and Cornell. I am indebted to seminar participants, Nicholas Tracter, and the editors and referees for helpful comments on earlier drafts.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - In a pure-currency economy, money is the only durable object and people have private histories. In such economies, taxation is not feasible and in some of them trade is enhanced through the use of money. For economies of that kind in which a nondegenerate distribution of money, part of the state of the economy, affects trades and real outcomes, and in which trades affect the state at the next date, the conjecture is that there are transfer schemes financed by money creation that improve ex ante representative-agent welfare relative to what can be achieved holding the stock of money fixed.
AB - In a pure-currency economy, money is the only durable object and people have private histories. In such economies, taxation is not feasible and in some of them trade is enhanced through the use of money. For economies of that kind in which a nondegenerate distribution of money, part of the state of the economy, affects trades and real outcomes, and in which trades affect the state at the next date, the conjecture is that there are transfer schemes financed by money creation that improve ex ante representative-agent welfare relative to what can be achieved holding the stock of money fixed.
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U2 - 10.1093/qje/qjt030
DO - 10.1093/qje/qjt030
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892496383
SN - 0033-5533
VL - 129
SP - 259
EP - 274
JO - Quarterly Journal of Economics
JF - Quarterly Journal of Economics
IS - 1
M1 - qjt030
ER -