Search and leisure with idiosyncratic endowment shocks in a random-matching model

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2005

Publication Title

Journal of Macroeconomics

Abstract

Agents who realize idiosyncratic endowment shocks (High and Low) choose between leisure and searching for a trading partner. In the non-monetary economy there are two cases: everyone enjoys leisure or everyone enters the market to barter. In the first case, money can generate an equilibrium in which all agents enter the market. In the second, money can generate an outcome impossible without money, in which High agents trade while Low agents rest. Money affects the real side of the economy by driving Low quality goods out of the market, improving the quality of traded goods.

Volume Number

27

Issue Number

3

First Page

385

Comments

© 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Last Page

402

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