Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5062586 Economics Letters 2007 6 Pages PDF
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.

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