Article
Active intermediation in a monetary overlapping generations economy
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-1998
DOI
10.1016/S0165-1889(97)00105-X
Abstract
This paper establishes that the profit-seeking activities of private intermediaries can ensure Pareto efficiency in the standard pure-exchange monetary overlapping generations economy without the need for government monetary or fiscal policy intervention. Moreover, these profit-seeking activities are shown to rule out all aperiodic and k-periodic cycles for k greater than 2. Contrary to much recent work on intermediation, the profit opportunities that arise for intermediaries in this context are not due to assumed frictions or asymmetric information. Rather, they are due to the dynamic open-ended structure of the economy, which permits debt roll-over.
Citation Information
Mark Pingle and Leigh Tesfatsion. "Active intermediation in a monetary overlapping generations economy" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Vol. 22 Iss. 10 (1998) p. 1543 - 1574 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leigh-tesfatsion/79/
This is a working paper of an article from Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 22 (1998): 1543, doi:10.1016/S0165-1889(97)00105-X