Money and Credit. Wilbur Aldrich

Money, credit and banking

In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits and make nominal loans. We show that in general financial intermediation improves the allocation and t...

The Credit Money and State Money Approaches

Money , Markets and Dynamic Credit ∗

This paper presents an integrated theory of money and dynamic credit. I study financial intermediation when both the intermediary and individuals have private information. I show that money is essential in solving the two-sided incentive problems under the dynamic credit arrangement. First, requiring settlement with money can induce market trades that generate information-revealing prices to di...

Money, Credit, and Euro-Dollars

Limited Commitment, Money, and Credit

This paper studies limited commitment and adverse selection in an economy in which private liabilities (inside money) can be used as instruments of intertemporal trade. The results suggest that in conjunction with adverse selection, the limited commitment problem may affect the behavior of intrinsically higher quality debtors more severely than lower quality ones. Nonetheless, a credit economy ...