Arbeitspapier

The Tobin effect and the Friedman rule

This paper studies an overlapping generations economy with capital where limited communication and stochastic relocation create an endogenous transactions role for fiat money. We assume a production function with a knowledge externality (Romer-style) that nests economies with endogenous growth (AK form) and those with no long-run growth (the Diamond model). We show that the Tobin effect is always operative. Under CRRA (constant relative risk aversion) preferences, a mild degree of social increasing returns is sufficient (but not necessary) for some positive inflation to dominate zero inflation and for the Friedman rule to be suboptimal, irrespective of the degree of risk aversion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Staff Report ; No. 224

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Central Banks and Their Policies
Thema
Friedman rule, Tobin effect, monetary policy
Geldmengensteuerung
Overlapping Generations
Produktionsfunktion
Neue Wachstumstheorie
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bhattacharya, Joydeep
Haslag, Joseph
Martin, Antoine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2005

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bhattacharya, Joydeep
  • Haslag, Joseph
  • Martin, Antoine
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Entstanden

  • 2005

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