Working Paper No. 10-29 Comment on Cavalcanti and Nosal’s “counterfeiting as Private Money in Mechanism Design”
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In this comment, I extend Cavalcanti and Nosals (2010) framework to include the case of perfectly divisible money and unrestricted money holdings. I show that when trade takes place in Walrasian markets, counterfeits circulate and the Friedman rule is still optimal.
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Working Paper 07 - 16 November 2007 Counterfeiting as Private Money in Mechanism Design
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