The bootstrap theory of money: A search-theoretic foundation of monetary economics

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 451-477

  Iwai, Katsuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coordination; Decentralized exchange; Evolution; Money; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001767246     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-349X(96)00060-4     Document Type: Article

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