Can currency competition work?

Can competition among privately-issued fiat currencies work? Only sometimes and partially. To show this, we build a model of competition among privately-issued fiat currencies. A purely private arrangement fails to implement an efficient allocation, even though it can deliver price stability under c...

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Main Authors: Fernández-Villaverde, J. (Author), Sanches, D. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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