Arbeitspapier

Money and costly credit

I study an economy in which money and credit coexist as means of payment and the settlement of credit requires money. The model extends recent developments in microfounded monetary theory to address the choice of payment methods and the effects of inflation. Whether a buyer uses money or credit depends on the fixed cost of credit and the inflation rate. In particular, inflation not only makes money less valuable, but also makes credit more expensive because of delayed settlement. Based on quantitative analysis, the model suggests that the relationship between inflation and credit exhibits an inverse U-shape which is broadly consistent with anecdotal evidence. Compared to an economy without credit, allowing credit as a means of payment has three implications: [1] it lowers money demand at low to moderate inflation rates; [2] it improves society's welfare when the inflation rate exceeds a specific threshold; and [3] it can raise the welfare cost of inflation for some reasonable values of the credit cost parameter.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Working Paper ; No. 2011-7

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Demand for Money
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Thema
Credit and credit aggregates
Inflation
costs and benefits
Geldwirtschaft
Kredit
Inflation
Zahlungsverkehr
Geldtheorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dong, Mei
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2011

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2011-7
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dong, Mei
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2011

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