Transactions cost, endogenous labor, and the superneutrality of money

  • Ping Wang
  • , Chong K. Yip

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    Abstract

    This paper develops a tractable perfect-foresight-shopping-time model with endogenous labor-leisure choice to investigate the superneutrality of money. Different from the existing literature, we examine the effects of money growth on both employment and capital accumulation. Under the lump-sum money transfer, we show that an increase in money growth rate unambiguously reduces steady-state capital, labor, leisure, consumption, and welfare, contrary to previous work. Since money is introduced into transaction effort technology via time allocation, the positive correlation between steady-state labor and leisure emerges.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)183-191
    Number of pages9
    JournalJournal of Macroeconomics
    Volume13
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1991

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