Traditional microeconomic approaches to demand for money problem are considered in the article. It also discusses current view of monetary theory on concept of “money”. New approach gives reasoning to existence of variety of payment innovations. It provides theoretical base for inclusion of...

So far little empirical evidence exists on how real wages of newly hired workers react to business cycle conditions. This paper aims at filling this gap for Germany by analyzing the cyclical behavior of real wages of newly hired workers while controlling for 'cyclical upgrading' and 'cyclical...

This paper examines whether the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model can account for the housing markets facts, most of all the empirical anomaly known as ‘price dispersion’. Our main finding is that the model can account for the three basic facts of housing market, without any restrictive...