The effects of inflation are considered for a small open economy with overlapping generations and a cash-in-advance constraint on consumption. In an endowment economy with one good, the model recovers the adjustment mechanism underlying the monetary approach to the balance of payments, which...

The effect of inflation on the capital stock is considered in an overlapping generations framework with a Cash-in-Advance constraint on consumption expenditures. The adjustment mechanism underlying the model is that of a traditional model with the real balance effect on savings.