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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The Distribution of Money Balances and the Non-Neutrality of Money
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Aleksander Berentsen
  • Gabriele Camera
  • Christopher Waller
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 220
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2005
Abstract Text "Recent monetary models with explicit microfoundations are made tractable by assumingnthat agents have access to centralized markets after one round of decentralized trade. Given quasi-linear preferences, this makes the distribution of money degenerate — which keeps the models simple but precludes discussion of distributional effects of monetary policy. We generalize these models by assuming two rounds of trade before agents can readjust their money holdings to study a range of new distributional effects analytically. We show that unexpected symmetric lump-sum money injections may increase short-run output and welfare,nwhile asymmetric injections may increase long-run output and welfare."
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