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Coexistence of several currencies in presence of increasing returns to adoption

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  • Lamarche-Perrin, Alex
  • Orléan, André
  • Jensen, Pablo

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We present a simplistic model of the competition between different currencies. Each individual is free to choose the currency that minimizes his transaction costs, which arise whenever his exchanging relations have chosen a different currency. We show that competition between currencies does not necessarily converge to the emergence of a single currency. For large systems, we prove that two distinct communities using different currencies in the initial state will remain forever in this fractionalized state.

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  • Lamarche-Perrin, Alex & Orléan, André & Jensen, Pablo, 2018. "Coexistence of several currencies in presence of increasing returns to adoption," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 496(C), pages 612-619.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:496:y:2018:i:c:p:612-619
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.117
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