Does and should a commodity medium of exchange have relatively low storagecosts?

Authors
Citation
Jm. Renero, Does and should a commodity medium of exchange have relatively low storagecosts?, INT ECON R, 40(2), 1999, pp. 251-264
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
ISSN journal
00206598 → ACNP
Volume
40
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
251 - 264
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-6598(199905)40:2<251:DASACM>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
I provide new existence and welfare results for a version of the Kiyotaki-W right model. I construct an equilibrium where all agents use mixed strategi es. Consequently, an object with a higher storage cost must have a higher a cceptability. Therefore, the endogenous transaction pattern corresponds to the observation that money is dominated in rate of return by other assets ( e.g., bonds), something that is a central issue in monetary economics. Furt hermore, at least in a neighborhood of equal storage costs, the equilibrium that I construct Pareto dominates alternative equilibria in which better o bjects are widely accepted.