{
    "id": 21779,
    "citation_title": "Working through the Distribution: Money in the Short and Long Run",
    "citation_author": [
        "<NAME>",
        "<NAME>",
        "<NAME>"
    ],
    "citation_publication_date": "2015-12-07",
    "issue_date": "2015-12-02",
    "revision_date": "None",
    "topics": [
        "Macroeconomics",
        "Money and Interest Rates",
        "Monetary Policy"
    ],
    "program": [
        "Economic Fluctuations and Growth",
        "Monetary Economics"
    ],
    "projects": null,
    "working_groups": null,
    "abstract": "\n\nWe construct a tractable model of monetary exchange with search and bargaining that features a non- degenerate distribution of money holdings in which one can study the short-run and long-run effects of changes in the money supply. While money is neutral in the long run, a one-time money injection in a centralized market with flexible prices generates an increase in aggregate real balances in the short run, a decrease in the rate of return of money, and a redistribution of consumption levels across agents. The price level in the short run varies in a non-monotonic fashion with the size of the money injection, e.g., small injections can lead to short-run deflation while large injections generate inflation. We extend our model to include employment risk and show that repeated money injections can raise output and welfare when unemployment is high.\n\n",
    "acknowledgement": "\nWe thank for their comments participants at the 2015 West Coast Search-and-Matching Workshop at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Economic Dynamics, 2015 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, and seminar participants at Simon Fraser University, University of Paris 2, and Banque de France. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.\n\n\n"
}