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An Argument for Positive Nominal Interest

In: Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics

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  • Gaetano Bloise

    (Yeshiva University
    University of Rome III)

  • Herakles Polemarchakis

    (University of Warwick)

Abstract

In a dynamic economy, money provides liquidity as a medium of exchange. A central bank that sets the nominal rate of interest and distributes its profit to shareholders as dividends is traded in the asset market. A nominal rates of interest that tend to zero, but do not vanish, eliminate equilibrium allocations that do not converge to a Pareto optimal allocation.

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  • Gaetano Bloise & Herakles Polemarchakis, 2017. "An Argument for Positive Nominal Interest," Studies in Economic Theory, in: Kazuo Nishimura & Alain Venditti & Nicholas C. Yannelis (ed.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, chapter 0, pages 363-385, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:steccp:978-3-319-44076-7_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44076-7_15
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    Keywords

    Nominal rate of interest; Dynamic efficiency;

    JEL classification:

    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
    • E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General

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