A pure credit economy

Authors
Citation
K. Mackinnon, A pure credit economy, CAN J ECON, 32(5), 1999, pp. 1245-1257
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE
ISSN journal
00084085 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
5
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1245 - 1257
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-4085(199911)32:5<1245:APCE>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
In a flexible price production economy, overlapping generations with perfec t foresight exchange money created endogenously as a byproduct of bank fina nce. Nominal interest rates are pegged by monetary policy. In the steady st ate, real and nominal rates are inversely correlated. Output, employment, a nd real wages fall in response to a lower nominal rate peg. The model displ ays a positively sloped long-run Phillips curve and a Tobin effect: both re al output and the capital-labour ratio rise with higher inflation.