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Coordination, Fragility, High-Powered Money, and the Liquidity Trap: A "Tobinesque" Parable

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  • John Bryant

    (Department of Economics, Rice University
    CentER, Tilborg University)

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This paper provides a simple model of fragility in which recession, triggered by demand for high-powered money, generates a liquidity trap. Moreover, in this liquidity trap parable, it is its assured store of value that is the critical attribute of high-powered money and not, perhaps, "liquidity services" per se at all. Thus, a rather "Tobinesque" liquidity trap is portrayed. The crucial ingredients in the model are simple, standard forms of production complementarities.

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  • John Bryant, 2005. "Coordination, Fragility, High-Powered Money, and the Liquidity Trap: A "Tobinesque" Parable," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 31(1), pages 97-106, Winter.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:31:y:2005:i:1:p:97-106
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    Keywords

    Money; Recession;

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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General

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