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| Other authors / contributors: | Wright, Randall, author.
Liu, Lucy Qian, author.
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| ISBN: | 1475577729
9781475577723
1475572336
9781475572339
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| Summary: | We develop a theory of money and credit as competing payment instruments, then put it to work in applications. Buyers can use cash or credit, with the former (latter) subject to the inflation tax (transaction costs). Frictions that make the choice of payment method interesting also imply equilibrium price dispersion. We deliver closed-form solutions for money demand. We then show the model can simultaneously account for the price-change facts, cash-credit shares in micro payment data, and money-interest correlations in macro data. We analyze the effects of inflation on welfare, price dispersion and markups. We also describe nonstationary equilibria as self-fulfilling prophecies, which is standard, except here it entails dynamics in the price distribution.
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| Other form: | Print version: Wang, Liang Money and Credit: Theory and Applications Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,2017 9781475572339
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| Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781475572339.001
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