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FIAT EXCHANGE IN FINITE ECONOMIES
Author(s) -
Kovenock Dan,
Vries Casper G.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1093/ei/40.2.147
Subject(s) - barter , autarky , fiat money , economics , monetary economics , microeconomics , keynesian economics , monetary policy , macroeconomics , market economy , welfare
The state of the art of rendering fiat money valuable is either to impose a boundary condition or to make the boundary condition unimportant through an infinite sequence of markets so as to circumvent backward induction. We show fiat exchange may nevertheless arise in finite economies if agents have incomplete information about their relative position in the trade cycle or when the barter and autarky equilibria of the one‐shot trading round support a monetary equilibrium with repeated trades.