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Asset Dynamics, Liquidity, And Inequality In Decentralized Markets

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  • Maurizio Iacopetta
  • Raoul Minetti

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The Kiyotaki and Wright model has exerted a considerable influence on the monetary search literature. We argue that the model also delivers important insights into a broader range of macroeconomic and development issues. The analysis studies how market frictions and the liquidity of assets affect the distribution of income. Experiments illustrate how the economy adjusts to shocks to asset returns and to the matching technology. They also deal with long‐run transition. An experiment interprets the reversal of fortune hypothesis as a situation in which an economy with a low‐return asset takes over a similar economy with a high‐return asset. (JEL C61, C63, E41, E27, D63)

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  • Maurizio Iacopetta & Raoul Minetti, 2019. "Asset Dynamics, Liquidity, And Inequality In Decentralized Markets," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 57(1), pages 537-551, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:57:y:2019:i:1:p:537-551
    DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12721
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    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • E41 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Demand for Money
    • E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
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