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Chapter 15
Money, Inflation and Banking
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Chapter 15 Topics
• Alternative forms of money.
• Money and the absence of double coincidence of wants.
• The causes and effects of long-run inflation.
• Financial intermediation and banking.
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Alternative Forms of Money
• Commodity money
• Circulating private bank notes
• Commodity-backed paper currency
• Fiat money
• Transactions deposits at banks
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The Double-Coincidence Problem and the Role of Money
• Barter exchange is difficult in highly-developed, specialized economies.
• Economic exchange requires search costs, and these costs are high when economic agents are specialized in consumption and production, and can only trade a good or service for another good or service.
• Search costs are reduced dramatically if everyone accepts money in exchange for goods and services.
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Figure 15.1 An Absence-of-Double-Coincidence Economy
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Figure 15.2 Good 1 as a Commodity Money in the Absence-of-Double-Coincidence Economy
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Figure 15.3 Fiat Money in the Absence-of-Double-Coincidence Economy
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The Effects of Long-Run Inflation
• Use the monetary intertemporal model from Chapter 10.
• Show that money is not superneutral – higher money growth causes higher inflation, which affects real economic variables.
• An increase in the money growth rate increases the inflation rate and the nominal interest rate, and reduces employment and output.
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Figure 15.4 Scatterplot of the Inflation Rate vs. the Growth Rate in M0 for the United States, 1960–2006
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Equation 15.1
Assume that the central bank causes the money supply to grow at a constant rate.
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Equation 15.2
In equilibrium, money supply equals money demand.
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Equation 15.3
Money supply also equals money demand in the future period.
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Equation 15.4
Combine the previous two equations.
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Equation 15.5
The consumer’s intertemporal marginal condition.
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Equation 15.6
Marginal condition reflecting the consumer’s tradeoff between current leisure and future consumption:
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Equation 15.7
Marginal condition reflecting the consumer’s tradeoff between current leisure and current consumption:
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Figure 15.5 The Long-Run Effects of an Increase in the Money Growth Rate
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The Friedman Rule
• Inflation causes an inefficiency, in that it distorts intertemporal decisions.
• The Friedman rule is a prescription for monetary growth that eliminates the inefficiency caused by inflation.
• The Friedman rule specifies that the money stock grow at a rate that makes the nominal interest rate zero.
• In practice, no central bank appears to have adopted a Friedman rule to guide monetary policy.
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Equation 15.9
Pareto optimality requires that
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Equation 15.10
In a competitive equilibrium,
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Equation 15.11
Also, in a competitive equilibrium,
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Properties of Assets
• Rate of return
• Risk
• Maturity
• Liquidity
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Defining Characteristics of Financial Intermediaries
1. Borrow from one group of economic agents and lend to another.
2. Well-diversified with respect to both assets and liabilities.
3. Transform assets.
4. Process information.
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The Diamond-Dybvig Banking Model
• Three periods, 0, 1, and 2.• Two types of consumers: early (consume in period
1) and late (consume in period 2)• Efficient economic arrangement is for consumers
to set up a bank in order to share risk.• Given the bank’s deposit contract, the bank is
open to a run, which is a bad equilibrium.
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Figure 15.6 The Utility Function For a Consumer in the Diamond–Dybvig Model
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Figure 15.7 The Preferences of a Diamond–Dybvig Consumer
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Equation 15.12
• The marginal rate of substitution of early consumption for late consumption is
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Equation 15.13
• First constraint that a deposit contract must satisfy is
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Equation 15.14
Second constraint that a deposit contract must satisfy is
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Equation 15.15
Combine the two constraints to get one:
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Equation 15.16
Re-write the constraint: