A Price Discrimination Analysis of Monetary Policy

John Bryant and Neil Wallace

The Review of Economic Studies, 1984, vol. 51, issue 2, 279-288

Abstract: Monetary policy is analysed within a model that appeals to legal restrictions on private intermediation to explain the coexistence of currency and interest-bearing default-free bonds. The interaction between such legal restrictions and monetary policy is illustrated in a version of the overlapping generations model. The model shows that legal restrictions and the use of both currency and bonds permit the government to levy a nonlinear inflation tax and that such a tax may be better in terms of the Pareto criterion than a linear inflation tax.

Date: 1984
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