Lecturas de Economía (Jul 2003)

Moneda, intercambios efectivos y desempleo keynesiano

  • Ludovic Julien

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 59
pp. 149 – 176

Abstract

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This paper aims at building up a simple model of a decentralized monetary economy with Keynesian unemployment. The existence of involuntary unemployment is based on the organization of trades. Money plays a critical role in coordinating decentralized transactions in equilibrium and in disequilibrium. Without perfect expectations, trades occur out of equilibrium. However, Keynesian unemployment is essentially an equilibrium phenomenom.

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