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Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Overlapping Generations Model with Spatial Separation

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Joe Haslag () (Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia)
Antoine Martin (Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

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Recent papers suggest that when intermediation is analyzed seriously, the Friedman rule does not maximize social welfare in overlapping generations model in which money is valued because of spatial separation and limited communication. These papers emphasize a trade-off between productive efficiency and risk sharing. We show financial intermediation or a trade-off between productive efficiency and risk sharing are neither necessary nor sufficient for that result. We give conditions under which the Friedman rule maximizes social welfare and show any feasible allocation such that money grows faster than the Friedman rule is Pareto dominated by a feasible allocation with the Friedman rule. The key to the results is the ability to make intergenerational transfers.

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Keywords: monetary policy; Friedman rule; fiat money;

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  1. Joseph H. Haslag & Joydeep Bhattacharya & Antoine Martin, 2004. "Sub-Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Townsends Turnpike and Limited Communication Models of money: Do finite lives and initial dates matter?," Working Papers 0415, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, revised 21 Dec 2004. [Downloadable!]
  2. Joydeep Bhattacharya & Joseph H. Haslag & Antoine Martin, 2004. "Heterogeneity, redistribution, and the Friedman rule," Research Working Paper RWP 04-01, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. [Downloadable!]
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  3. A. Berentsen & C. Strub, 2004. "On the Friedman Rule with Heterogeneous Agents," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 609, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
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