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Active Intermediation in a Monetary Overlapping Generations Economy

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  • Pingle, Mark
  • Tesfatsion, Leigh S.

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This paper establishes that the profit-seeking activities of private intermediaries can ensure Pareto efficiency in the standard pure-exchange monetary overlapping generations economy without the need for government monetary or fiscal policy intervention. Moreover, these profit-seeking activities are shown to rule out all aperiodic and k-periodic cycles for k greater than 2. Contrary to much recent work on intermediation, the profit opportunities that arise for intermediaries in this context are not due to assumed frictions or asymmetric information. Rather, they are due to the dynamic open-ended structure of the economy, which permits debt roll-over. Annotated pointers to related work can be accessed here: http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/dehome.htm

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers Archive with number 1954.

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Date of creation: 01 Jan 1998
Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 1998, vol. 22, pp. 1543-1574
Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:1954
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Cited by:

  1. Pingle, Mark & Tesfatsion, Leigh, 1998. "Active Intermediation In Overlapping Generations Economies With Production And Unsecured Debt," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(02), pages 183-212, June.
  2. Tesfatsion, Leigh, 2006. "Agent-Based Computational Modeling And Macroeconomics," Staff General Research Papers Archive 12402, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.

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