Active Intermediation in a Monetary Overlapping Generations Economy

Mark Pingle () and Leigh Tesfatsion ()

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Abstract: This paper establishes that the profit-seeking activities of private intermediaries can ensure Pareto efficiency in the standard pure-exchange monetary overlapping generations economy without the need for government monetary or fiscal policy intervention. Moreover, these profit-seeking activities are shown to rule out all aperiodic and k-periodic cycles for k greater than 2. Contrary to much recent work on intermediation, the profit opportunities that arise for intermediaries in this context are not due to assumed frictions or asymmetric information. Rather, they are due to the dynamic open-ended structure of the economy, which permits debt roll-over. Annotated pointers to related work can be accessed here: http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/dehome.htm

JEL-codes: C6 E2 E4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-01-01
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Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 1998, vol. 22, pp. 1543-1574

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