Standard money-in-utlity dynamic models assume satiable liquidity preference, and thereby prove the existence of a full employment steady state. Using the same model, Ono (1994) shows that under insatiable liquidity preference there is a case where a full employment steady state does not exist...

After the 1990 Japanese stock market crash the Japanese economy began to stagnate whereas the U.S. economy began to expand, yet the yen tended to appreciate against the dollar. Such a phenomenon is difficult to explain in conventional models. This paper examines its mechanism using a two-country...