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A Search Theoretic Model of Legal and Illegal Currency

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  • Soller, E.V.
  • Waller, C.

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Using a search theoretic model of money, we explore the conditions under which two currencies, domestic and foreign, will co-exist depsite legal restrictions on the use of foreign currency for internal trade. We then study how changes in government policy regarding enforcement of currency laws affects the equilibrium value of both currencies, the exchange rate and goverment seigniorage revenues. In our one country, two currency model, we show that there are multiple monetary equilibria.

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Paper provided by Indiana - Center for Econometric Model Research in its series Papers with number 97-003.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: 1997
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Handle: RePEc:fth:indian:97-003

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Keywords: CURRENCIES ; EXCHANGE RATE ; MODELS;

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  1. Craig, B. & Waller, C.J., 1999. "Currency Portfolios and Nominal Exchange Rates in a Dual Currency Search Economy," Papers 9916, London School of Economics - Centre for Labour Economics.
  2. Ben R. Craig & Christopher J. Waller, 2000. "Dual-currency economies as multiple-payment systems," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, issue Q I, pages 2-13.
  3. Dutu, Richard, 2008. "Currency interdependence and dollarization," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 1673-1687, December.
  4. Chang, Sanders S., 2006. "Inflation and dollarization in a dual-currency search-theoretic model," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 92(3), pages 353-359, September.
  5. Martin, Antoine, 2006. "Endogenous Multiple Currencies," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 38(1), pages 245-262, February.
  6. Sebastien Lotz & Guillaume Rocheteau, 2000. "Launching of a New Currency in a Simple Random Matching Model," Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers 0720, Econometric Society.
  7. Peter Rupert & Martin Schindler & Andrei Shevchenko & Randall Wright, 2000. "The search-theoretic approach to monetary economics: a primer," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, issue Q IV, pages 10-28.
  8. Marchesiani, Alessandro & Senesi, Pietro, 2007. "Asymmetric government transaction policies and currencies substitutability," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 105-110, November.
  9. Zhang, Cathy, 2013. "An Information-Based Theory of International Currency," MPRA Paper 42114, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  10. Craig, Ben & Waller, C.J.Christopher J., 2004. "Dollarization and currency exchange," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(4), pages 671-689, May.
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  13. Lotz, Sebastien, 2004. "Introducing a new currency: Government policy and prices," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(5), pages 959-982, October.
  14. Camera, Gabriele, 2001. "Dirty money," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 377-415, April.

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