On Money as a Medium of Exchange when Goods Vary by Supply and Demand

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On Money as a Medium of Exchange when Goods Vary by Supply and Demand

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Xavier Cuadras ()
Randall Wright

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Models of the exchange process based on search theory can be used to analyze the features of objects that make them more or less likely to emerge as ``money'' in equilibrium. These models illustrate the trade--off between endogenous acceptability (an equilibrium property) and intrinsic characteristics of goods, such as storability, recognizability, etc. In this paper, we look at how the relative supply and demand for various goods affect their likelihood of becoming money. Intuitively, goods in high demand and/or low supply are more likely to appear as commodity money, subject to the qualification that which object ends up circulating as a medium of exchange depends at least partly on convention. Welfare properties are discussed.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in its series Economics Working Papers with number 160.

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- Xavier Cuadras-Morato & Randall Wright, . "On Money as a Medium of Exchange When Goods Vary by Supply and Demand," CARESS Working Papres 97-1, University of Pennsylvania Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences.

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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S. Rao Aiyagari & Neil Wallace, 1991. "Existence of steady states with positive consumption in the Kiyotaki-Wright model," Working Papers 428, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. [Downloadable!]
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- Aiyagari, S Rao & Wallace, Neil, 1991. "Existence of Steady States with Positive Consumption in the Kiyotaki-Wright Model," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 58(5), pages 901-16, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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Cuadras-Morato, Xavier, 1994. "Commodity Money in the Presence of Goods of Heterogeneous Quality," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 4(4), pages 579-91, May.
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- Xavier Cuadras, 1993. "Commodity Money in the Presence of Goods of Heterogenous Quality," Economics Working Papers 40, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
Steve Williamson & Randall Wright, 1991. "Barter and monetary exchange under private information," Staff Report 141, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. [Downloadable!]
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- Williamson, S. & Wright, R., 1991. "Barter and Monetary Exchange Under Private Information," University of Western Ontario, The Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations Working Papers 9107, University of Western Ontario, The Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations.
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Xavier Cuadras-Morató, 1997. "Can ice cream be money?: Perishable medium of exchange," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 66(2), pages 103-125, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Xavier Cuadras Morató, 2003. "General Preferences for Consumption Goods in the Random Matching Model of Commodity Money," Economics Working Papers 706, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]

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