Stable Sunspot Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy

University of Oregon Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2001-5

28 Pages Posted: 15 Oct 2003

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George W. Evans

University of Oregon - Department of Economics; University of St. Andrews - School of Economics and Finance

Seppo Honkapohja

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Aalto University School of Business; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Aalto University - School of Business

Ramon Marimon

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 25, 2001

Abstract

We develop a monetary model with flexible supply of labor, cash in advance constraints and government spending financed by seignorage. This model has two regimes. One regime is conventional with two steady states. The other regime has a unique steady state which can be determinate or indeterminate. In the latter case there exist sunspot equilibria which are stable under adaptive learning, taking the form of noisy finite state Markov processes at resonant frequencies. For a range of parameter values, a sufficient reduction in government purchases will eliminate these equilibria.

Keywords: Indeterminacy, learnability, expectational stability, endogenous fluctuations, seignorage

JEL Classification: C63, D83, D84, E31, E32

Suggested Citation

Evans, George W. and Honkapohja, Seppo and Honkapohja, Seppo and Marimon, Ramon, Stable Sunspot Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy (October 25, 2001). University of Oregon Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2001-5, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=436544 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.436544

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