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Existence of monetary steady states in a matching model of money

Posted on:2003-11-09Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:The Pennsylvania State UniversityCandidate:Zhu, TaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1469390011483191Subject:Economics
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Existence of a monetary steady state is established for a random matching model with divisible goods, general individual money holdings, and take-it-or-leave-it offers by consumers. For indivisible money, the only assumption is a lower bound on the marginal utility of consumption at zero. For divisible money, there are two additional assumptions: the marginal utility of consumption at zero is bounded above and there is a finite bound on individual money holdings. In each case, the monetary steady state shown to exist has nice properties: the value function, defined on money holdings, is increasing and strictly concave, and the measure over money holdings has full support.
Keywords/Search Tags:Money, Monetary steady
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