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Money Illusion And Market Survival

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By studying complete and incomplete dynamic financial markets, I show that if some agents are money-illusioned and neglect inflation, the rational agents who are aware of inflation are driven out of the market in the long run, in the sense that the money-illusioned agents consume the economy's entire endowment. The reason for this finding is that with inflation, the money-illusioned agents always believe that the return on their savings is higher than it actually is. Because these agents trade financial assets in markets with the rational agents, the rational agents end up being borrowers and the money-illusioned agents lenders. Because the rational agents' debt accumulates over time, they become so indebted that the money-illusioned agents eventually consume the economy's entire endowment. If there is deflation, the opposite is true, and the rational agents evolutionarily dominate.

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  • Eisenhuth, Roland, 2017. "Money Illusion And Market Survival," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 21(1), pages 1-10, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:macdyn:v:21:y:2017:i:01:p:1-10_00
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    1. Jorge N Zumaeta, 2021. "Money Illusion in Charitable Giving in the Absence of Market Price Resistance," Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, AMH International, vol. 13(3), pages 24-33.
    2. Pengyu Wei & Charles Yang, 2023. "Optimal investment for defined-contribution pension plans under money illusion," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 61(2), pages 729-753, August.
    3. Antonio J. Morales & Enrique Fatas, 2021. "Price competition and nominal illusion: experimental evidence and a behavioural model," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 607-632, December.

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