Currency Exchange in a Random Search Model

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Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Year: 1997
Volume: 64
Issue: 2
Pages: 289-310

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8.043 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

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Abstract

This paper investigates foreign exchange trading, a phenomenon that typically accompanies international trade. A search-theoretic general equilibrium approach is adopted to study a two-country, two-currency model. For some parameter values of the model, there exist some pure-strategy equilibria in which commodity-currency trade is conducted primarily through local currency and in which there is active currency-currency exchange. The coexistence of valued foreign currency and its local non-acceptability conforms largely with the country-specific cash-in-advance constraint that is often assumed exogenously in international finance literature.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:restud:v:64:y:1997:i:2:p:289-310.
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-29