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  • Benjamin Eden

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What are the "liquidity services" provided by �over-priced� assets? How do international seigniorage payments affect the choice of monetary policies? Does a country gain when other hold its �over-priced� assets? These questions are analyzed here in a model in which demand uncertainty (taste shocks) and sequential trade are key. It is shown that a country with a relatively stable demand may issue "over priced" debt and get seigniorage payments from countries with unstable demand. But this does not necessarily improve welfare in the stable demand country.

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Paper provided by Vanderbilt University Department of Economics in its series Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers with number 0622.

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Keywords: Seigniorage; liquidity; rate of return dominance; optimal monetary policy;

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Cited by:
  1. Diego Escobari & Li Gan, 2007. "Price Dispersion under Costly Capacity and Demand Uncertainty," NBER Working Papers 13075, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Benjamin Eden, 2005. "Inefficient Trade Patterns: Excessive Trade, Cross-Hauling, and Dumping," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0503, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.

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