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Artigo científico

Stationarity without degeneracy in a model of commodity money

Cavalcanti, Ricardo de Oliveira; Puzzello, Daniela

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We develop a model of macroeconomic heterogeneity inspired by the Kiyotaki-Wright (J Polit Econ 97:924-954, 1989) formulation of commodity money, with the addition of linear utility and idiosyncratic shocks to savings. We consider two environments. In the benchmark case, the consumer in a meeting is chosen randomly. In the auctions case, the individual holding more money can be selected to be the consumer. We show that in both environments socially optimal trading decisions (that are individually acceptable) are stationary and solve a tractable static optimization problem. Savings decisions in the benchmark case are remarkably invariant to mean-preserving changes in the distribution of shocks. This result is overturned in the auctions case.

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Tipo
Artigo científico
Ano
2010
Instituição
Springer
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Acesso restrito
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23161

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