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On Money as a Substitute for Perfect Recall

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  • Ted Temzelides

    (The University of Iowa)

  • Jialin Yu

    (Princeton University)

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In environments with no commitment and with a need for intertemporal trade, bounded recall is shown to be a sufficient friction for a receipt system (fiat money) to lead to improved allocations in an otherwise frictionless Walrasian model. The absence of other frictions makes price determination tractable, thus the model may be used for quantitative monetary policy experiments. Some issues regarding the divisibility of money are also discussed.

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  • Ted Temzelides & Jialin Yu, 2001. "On Money as a Substitute for Perfect Recall," Macroeconomics 0012020, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    money; memory; competitive equilibrium;
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    • E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
    • C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling

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