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Currency and Credit Are Equivalent Mechanisms

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The author studies a pure exchange economy with many agents whose marginal utility of consumption is stochastically heterogeneous and independent of wealth, with realized marginal utility of wealth private information. He shows that currency and credit are equivalent to a contract that is efficient when the privacy of information is viewed as a constraint and that the cash-in-advance constraint is an expression of an incentive constraint. Copyright 1994 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.

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  • Taub, Bart, 1994. "Currency and Credit Are Equivalent Mechanisms," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 35(4), pages 921-956, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ier:iecrev:v:35:y:1994:i:4:p:921-56
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    19. Josef Schroth, 2015. "Risk Sharing in the Presence of a Public Good," Staff Working Papers 15-27, Bank of Canada.

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