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Efficiency improvement from restricting the liquidity of nominal bonds

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  • Shi, Shouyong

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In a monetary search model with nominal bonds, agents face matching/taste shocks but they cannot insure, borrow or trade against such shocks. A government imposes a legal restriction that prohibits bonds from being used to buy a subset of goods. I show that this legal restriction can increase the society's welfare. In contrast to the literature, this efficiency role persists in the steady state and even when the households cannot trade assets after receiving the shocks. Moreover, it can exist when the Friedman rule is available and when the restriction is only obeyed by government agents.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of Monetary Economics.

Volume (Year): 55 (2008)
Issue (Month): 6 (September)
Pages: 1025-1037

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Handle: RePEc:eee:moneco:v:55:y:2008:i:6:p:1025-1037

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  1. Aleksander Berentsen & Christopher Waller, 2009. "Outside versus inside bonds: A Modigliani-Miller type result for liquidity constrained economies," IEW - Working Papers 443, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.
  2. Yiting Li & Guillaume Rocheteau & Pierre-Olivier Weill, 2011. "Liquidity and the Threat of Fraudulent Assets," NBER Working Papers 17500, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Berentsen, Aleksander & Waller, Christopher, 2011. "Outside versus inside bonds: A Modigliani–Miller type result for liquidity constrained economies," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 146(5), pages 1852-1887, September.
  4. David Andolfatto, 2009. "On the Societal Benefits of Illiquid Bonds," Working Paper Series 13_09, The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, revised Jan 2009.
  5. Aleksander Berentsen & Alessandro Marchesiani & Christopher J. Waller, 2010. "Channel systems: why is there a positive spread?," IEW - Working Papers 517, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.
  6. Aleksander Berentsen & Samuel Huber & Alessandro Marchesiani, 2012. "Degreasing the wheels of finance," ECON - Working Papers 101, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.

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