An interpretation of government policy regarding what it accepts in transactions is embedded in a version of the Kiyotaki-Wright model of media of exchange. In an example with two goods and one fiat money, the policies consistent with fiat money being the unique medium of exchange are identified. These uniqueness policies have the government favoring fiat money in its transactions. Benefits and costs accompany any such policy. The benefit is that a worse nonmonetary equilibrium is eliminated; the cost is that a better monetary equilibrium is also eliminated.
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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its series Working Papers with number
516.
Length: Date of creation: 1995 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Vol. 74, No. 1, May 1997, pp. 1-18) Handle: RePEc:fip:fedmwp:516
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