TY - JOUR
T1 - A model of commodity money
AU - Sargent, Thomas J.
AU - Wallace, Meil
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - Commodity money is modeled as one or two of the capital goods in a one-consumption good and one or two capital-good, overlapping generations model. Among the topics addressed using versions of the model are (i) the nature of the inefficiency of commodity money, (ii) the validity of quantity-theory predictions for commodity money systems, (iii) the circumstances under which one commodity emerges naturally as the commodity money, (iv) the role of inside money (money backed by private debt) in commodity money systems and (v) the circumstances under which a government can choose the commodity to serve as the commodity money.
AB - Commodity money is modeled as one or two of the capital goods in a one-consumption good and one or two capital-good, overlapping generations model. Among the topics addressed using versions of the model are (i) the nature of the inefficiency of commodity money, (ii) the validity of quantity-theory predictions for commodity money systems, (iii) the circumstances under which one commodity emerges naturally as the commodity money, (iv) the role of inside money (money backed by private debt) in commodity money systems and (v) the circumstances under which a government can choose the commodity to serve as the commodity money.
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U2 - 10.1016/0304-3932(83)90055-7
DO - 10.1016/0304-3932(83)90055-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001254757
VL - 12
SP - 163
EP - 187
JO - Journal of Monetary Economics
JF - Journal of Monetary Economics
SN - 0304-3932
IS - 1
ER -