The objective of this paper is to study optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a dynamic Mirrlees model where the frictions giving rise to money as a medium of exchange are explicitly modeled. The framework is a three period OLG model where agents are born every other period. The young and old...

We develop a general equilibrium framework to analyze the relationship between the operation of the financial system, inflation and economic growth. We first investigate the dynamic interactions between financial development and growth by analyzing how financial innovations affect real growth,...

We study the long run (low frequency) dynamic relationship between money, as measured by inflation or interest rates, and unemployment. We first discuss the data. We then develop a framework where money and unemployment are both modeled with microfoundations based on explicit frictions. This...