Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices
Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices
This chapter investigates the process through which asset prices are determined in monetary economies. Here, fiat money is viewed as an asset when situated within a monetary economy. Though its fundamental value is zero, fiat money appears to have positive value if there is limited enforcement and a lack of record-keeping. The presents study focuses on an environment void of money, but with a fixed supply of assets. It shows that just like fiat money, real assets can be used as a medium of exchange in decentralized trades. Next, the chapter explores how inflation affects the pricing of assets within an environment that has a fixed supply of real assets. It also determines the possible value of assets by analyzing rate-of-return differences across assets as stemming from liquidity differences.
Keywords: asset prices, monetary economy, fiat money, fixed supply of assets, medium of exchange, pricing of assets, real assets, rate-of-return differences, liquidity
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