Optimal Monetary Policy and Economic Growth

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Joseph Haslag and Antoine Martin

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies a overlapping generations economy with capital where limited communication and stochastic relocation create an endogenous transactions role for fiat money. We assume a production function with a knowledge-externality (Romer-style) that nests economies with endogenous growth (AK form) and those with no long run growth (the Diamond model). We show that the Tobin effect is always operative. Under CRRA preferences, irrespective of the degree of risk aversion, we also show that for some positive inflation to be optimal and for the Friedman rule to be sub-optimal, it is sufficient (but not necessary) that there be a mild degree of social increasing returns

Keywords: Friedman rule; Tobin effect; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E51 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01-01
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Published in European Economic Review 2009, vol. 53 no. 2, pp. 210-221

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