A Course in Monetary Economics: Sequential Trade, Money, and Uncertainity

Benjamin Eden is a Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and the University of Haifa in Israel. He has published articles in numerous academic journals, including The Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The American Economic Review. Professor Eden served for many years as a consultant to the Bank of Israel, and has taught monetary economics at various schools including Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA, the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago.

* Introduction * Money in the Utility Function * More Explicit Models of Money * Monetary Economics and Public Finance * The Regulation of Banks and Near Moneys * Money and the Business Cycle: Does Money Matter? * Sticky Prices in a Cash-in-Advance Model * Flexible Prices * Uncertain and Sequential Trade (UST) Models * A Monetary UST Model * Limited Participation, Sticky Prices and UST: a Comparison * A UST Cash-in-Advance Model with Storage * Inventories and the Business Cycle * Money and Credit in the Business Cycle * Sticky Prices and UST: Evidence from Micro Data * The Friedman Rule in a UST Model * Reserve Requirements in a UST Model * Sequential International Trade * Endogenous Information and Informational Externalities * UST with Random Utility Maximization * Seemingly Rigid Prices. Index