Overlapping Structures as a Model of Money
An Analytical Review
Published on 14. February 2012
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The list of those to whom I am indebted is a long one. Prof. Neil Wallace (University of Minnesota) stimulated my interest in the kind of models with which the book deals. I am grateful for a large number of conversations with him. I learned a lot from him and will always be proud that I have been one of his student. I hope that he is not dissappointed with the outcome. I am deeply indebted to Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn (University of Munich). His observations and critical remarks were instrumental for a great number of changes and improvements which I was able to introduce while revising the manuscript again and again, and rethinking the basic arguments. I also want to thank Prof. Dr. Utta Gruber (University of Munich) for her helpful comments and for her support. I am very much obliged to Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans Moller (University of Munich). For many years I have had the honour of a nearly continuous dialogue with him. I am also grateful to Prof. Dr. Werner Gumpel (University). The stimulating atmosphere and the research opportunities which were provided by his seminar contributed a lot to my work. Finally I want to thank my wife Sigrid for looking through the English draft of this book and correcting numerous linguistic flaws. The remaining errors are of course mine. CONTENTS Page v Preface 1. INTRODUCTION 1. 1.
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Language
English
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Berlin
Germany
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Springer Berlin
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X, 242 p.
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Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
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448 gr
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978-3-642-45715-9 (9783642457159)
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10.1007/978-3-642-45713-5
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Content
1. Introduction.- 1.1. The "Integration of Monetary and Value Theory".- 1.2. The Concept of an "Overlapping Structure".- 1.3. The Purpose of this Book.- 2. The Overlapping Generation Model: An Overview.- 2.1. The Samuelson-Model.- 2.2. OGMs with Production and Capital.- 2.3. Generalizations of the Basic Model.- 2.4. The Interpretation of Indeterminacy.- 2.5. Concluding Remark.- 3. Overlapping Structures and Cash-In-Advance Constraints.- 3.1. Cass' Theorems.- 3.2. The Analogy between the Samuelson Model and a Simple Cash-in-Advance Constraint Model.- 3.3. A Physical Structure which Generates Cash-in-Advance Constraints.- 4. The Rate of Return Paradox I: OGM with Transaction Costs.- 4.1. A Transaction Costs Model by Bryant and Wallace.- 4.2. Difficulties of Identifying Safe Assets and the Rate of Return Paradox.- 4.3. Baumol's Inventory Model of Money.- 4.4. A Concluding Remark.- 5. The Rate of Return Paradox II: "Legal Restrictions".- 5.1. "Legal Restrictions" in the FR Germany.- 5.2. Implications of the Legal Restriction Theory.- 5.3. Some Observations from Monetary History and the Present.- 5.4. Legal restrictions as an Expedient for Levying the Inflation Tax.- 5.5. Minimum Reserve Requirements and Indeterminacy.- 5.6. Minimum Sizes for Privately Issued Bearer's Notes.- 5.7. Holding out the Prospect of Backing.- 5.8. Concluding Remark.- 6. Private Production of Outside Money.- 6.1. Competition between Private Producers of Fiat Money.- 6.2. Money as a Natural Monopoly.- 6.3. Gresham's Law.- 6.4. Concluding Remark.- 7. Topics in Commodity Money Theory.- 7.1. A Model of a Gold Specie Standard.- 7.2. The Quantity Theory of Money.- 7.3. Uniqueness of Equilibrium.- 7.4. Restrictions on the Production of Inside Money.- 7.5. Commodity Money withoutReserves.- 8. A Few Macroeconomic Applications.- 8.1. A Model with Non-Interest Bearing Money and Interest-Bearing Public Debt.- 8.2. "Backed" and "Unbacked" Public Debt.- 8.3. A Simple Model with Cash-in-advance Constraints and Credit Goods.- 8.4. The Distinction between Outside and Inside Money.- 8.5. The Fisher Effect.- 8.6. Grandmont-Policy.- 9. Monetary Policy in The Open Economy.- 9.1. The Kareken and Wallace Model.- 9.2. Stabilizing and Destabilizing Speculation.- 9.3. Concluding Remark.- 10. Summary and Conclusions.- 10.1. Summary.- 10.2. Conclusions.