• Title of article

    Is higher confidence of fiat money necessarily desirable?

  • Author/Authors

    Jumpei Tanaka، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    211
  • To page
    216
  • Abstract
    We investigate whether higher confidence of fiat money is desirable from the viewpoint of dynamic resource allocation. Using a simple overlapping generations model, we demonstrate that higher confidence of fiat money depresses economic growth and harms the welfare of future generations born sufficiently later.
  • Keywords
    fiat money , Overlapping generations
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436214