Money, payments, and liquidity / Ed Nosal and Guillaume Rocheteau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nosal, Ed.

Contributor:

Rocheteau, Guillaume.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liquidity (Economics).

Monetary policy.

Money.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two experts in monetary policy offer a unified framework for studying the role of money and liquid assets in the economy.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Models Where Money Is Useless; Models Where Money Is Essential; Beyond Monetary Exchange: Credit and Liquidity; Tour of the Book; Chapter 1. The Basic Environment; 1.1 Benchmark Model; 1.2 Variants of the Benchmark Model; 1.3 Further Readings; Chapter 2. Pure Credit Economies; 2.1 Credit with Commitment; 2.2 Credit Default; 2.3 Credit with Public Record Keeping; 2.4 Credit with Reputation; 2.5 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 3. The Role of Money; 3.1 Money Is Memory; 3.2 Decentralizing Allocations; 3.3 Further Readings

Chapter 4. Money in Equilibrium 4.1 A Model of Divisible Money; 4.2 Alternative Bargaining Solutions; 4.3 Walrasian Price Taking; 4.4 Competitive Price Posting; 4.5 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 5. Properties of Money; 5.1 Divisibility of Money; 5.2 Portability of Money; 5.3 Recognizability of Money; 5.4 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 6. The Optimum Quantity of Money; 6.1 Optimality of the Friedman Rule; 6.2 Interest on Currency; 6.3 Friedman Rule and the First Best; 6.4 Necessity of the Friedman Rule; 6.5 Feasibility of the Friedman Rule

6.6 Trading Frictions and the Friedman Rule 6.7 Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy; 6.8 The Welfare Cost of Inflation; 6.9 Further Readings; Chapter 7. Information, Monetary Policy, and the Inflation-Output Trade-Off; 7.1 Stochastic Money Growth; 7.2 Bargaining under Asymmetric Information; 7.3 Equilibrium under Asymmetric Information; 7.4 The Inflation and Output Trade-Off; 7.5 An Alternative Information Structure; 7.6 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 8. Money and Credit; 8.1 Dichotomy between Money and Credit; 8.2 Costly Record Keeping; 8.3 Strategic Complementarities and Payments

8.4 Credit and Reallocation of Liquidity 8.5 Short-Term and Long-Term Partnerships; 8.6 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 9. Money, Negotiable Debt, and Settlement; 9.1 The Environment; 9.2 Frictionless Settlement; 9.3 Settlement and Liquidity; 9.4 Settlement and Default Risk; 9.5 Settlement and Monetary Policy; 9.6 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 10. Competing Media of Exchange; 10.1 Money and Capital; 10.2 Dual Currency Payment Systems; 10.3 Money and Nominal Bonds; 10.4 Recognizability and Rate-of-Return Dominance; 10.5 Pairwise Trade and Rate-of-Return Dominance

10.6 Further Readings Chapter 11. Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices; 11.1 A Monetary Approach to Asset Prices; 11.2 Monetary Policy and Asset Prices; 11.3 Risk and Liquidity; 11.4 The Liquidity Structure of Assets' Yields; 11.5 Endogenous Recognizability, Information, and Liquidity; 11.6 Further Readings; Appendix; Chapter 12. Liquidity and Trading Frictions; 12.1 The Environment; 12.2 Equilibrium; 12.3 Trading Frictions and Asset Prices; 12.4 Intermediation Fees and Bid-Ask Spreads; 12.5 Trading Delays; 12.6 Further Readings; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613343666

9781283343664

1283343665

9780262298285

0262298287

OCLC:

767808122