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Understanding the Roles of Money, or When is the Friedman Rule Optimal, and Why?

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Joe Haslag () (Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia)
Joydeep Bhattacharya (Iowa State University)
Steven Russell (IUPUI)

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In this paper, we study the optimal steady state monetary policy in overlapping generations (OG) models. In contrast to economies populated by inthnitely-lived representative agents (ILRA), the Friedman Rule is frequently not the policy that maximizes the welfare of two-period lived consumers. Our principal goal is to understand why the Friedman Rule is suboptimal in OG economies. To this end, we construct a mechanism.specithcally, a monetary policy regime.that renders money useless in the sense of executing intergenerational transfers. Under this governmental regime, we show that the optimal monetary policy is the Friedman Rule. Our thnding is robust to alternative rationales for valued that money; specithcally, whether money is held voluntarily or involuntarily.

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Keywords: Monetary Policy; Friedman Rule; Fiat Money;

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E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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  1. Bhattacharya, Joydeep & Haslag, Joseph & Martin, Antoine, 2005. "Optimal Monetary Policy and Economic Growth," Staff General Research Papers 12413, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Joydeep Bhattacharya & Joseph Haslag & Antoine Martin, 2005. "The Tobin effect and the Friedman rule," Staff Reports 224, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [Downloadable!]
  3. Joseph H. Haslag & Joydeep Bhattacharya & Antoine Martin, 2004. "Sub-Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Townsends Turnpike and Limited Communication Models of money: Do finite lives and initial dates matter?," Working Papers 0415, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, revised 21 Dec 2004. [Downloadable!]
  4. Bhattacharya, Joydeep & Haslag, Joseph & Martin, Antoine, 2004. "Heterogeneity, Redistribution, and the Friedman Rule," Staff General Research Papers 11371, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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