Game-theoretic foundations of monetary equilibrium

Arbeitspapier

Monetary theorists have advanced an intriguing notion: we exchange money to make up for a lack of enforcement, when it is difficult to monitor and sanction opportunistic behaviors. We demonstrate that, in fact, monetary equilibrium cannot generally be sustained when monitoring and punishment limitations preclude enforcement - external or not. Simply put, monetary systems cannot operate independently of institutions - formal or informal - designed to monitor behaviors and sanction undesirable ones. This fundamental result is derived by integrating monetary theory with the theory of repeated games, studying monetary equilibrium as the outcome of a matching game with private monitoring.

Objekt anzeigen

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: SAFE Working Paper ; No. 32

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Social norms ; repeated games ; cooperation ; payment systems

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Camera, Gabriele ; Gioffré, Alessandro
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.2139/ssrn.2334192
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/88742
• URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-317888