The Social Viability of Money Competitive Equilibria and the Core of Overlapping Generations Economies

In this book overlapping generations economies are analysed from a game theoretical point of view and the social acceptability of consumption allocations is studied in infinite horizon models of pure exchange economieswith agents with finite lifetimes who behave cooperatively. The core of such econo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Esteban, Joan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • 1 The Viability of Fiat Money
  • II The Overlapping Generations Model of an Exchange Economy
  • II Dynamic Efficiency
  • III Competitive Equilibria in a Barter, Overlapping Generations Economy
  • IV Monetary Equilibria
  • III The Core in Overlapping Generations Economies
  • V A Characterization of the Core
  • VI Competitive Equilibria and the Core. One agent per generation
  • VII Competitive Equilibria and the Core. Many agents per generation
  • References