A Model of Commodity Money, with Applications to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 291-323

  Velde, François R ^a   Weber, Warren E ^b   Wright, Randall ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Commodity money; Debasement; Gresham's Law; Random matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000485979     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1998.0037     Document Type: Article

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