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Moneyspots: Extraneous Attributes and the Coexistence of Money and Interest-Bearing Nominal Bonds

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It is folklore among monetary theorists that, under laissez faire, without ad hoc assumptions that favor money over bonds, there do not exist equilibria in which government-issued fiat money coexists with nominal default-free, interest-bearing government bonds with similar physical characteristics. This proposition is the basis for the strongest version of the rate-of-return-dominance puzzle. In this paper I show that if--as has been the case throughout monetary history--the physical object used as fiat money is heterogeneous in an extraneous attribute, then there exist equilibria in which money coexists with interest-bearing bonds.

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  • Ricardo Lagos, 2013. "Moneyspots: Extraneous Attributes and the Coexistence of Money and Interest-Bearing Nominal Bonds," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 121(1), pages 127-185.
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