Active intermediation in a monetary overlapping generations economy |
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Authors: | Mark Pingle Leigh Tesfatsion |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA;bDepartment of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1070, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper establishes that the profit-seeking activities of private intermediaries can ensure Pareto efficiency in the standard pure-exchange monetary overlapping generations economy without the need for government monetary or fiscal policy intervention. Moreover, these profit-seeking activities are shown to rule out all aperiodic and k-periodic cycles for k greater than 2. Contrary to much recent work on intermediation, the profit opportunities that arise for intermediaries in this context are not due to assumed frictions or asymmetric information. Rather, they are due to the dynamic open-ended structure of the economy, which permits debt roll-over. |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: D61 E44 G23 |
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