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Narek Alexanian On Cash Multipliers and Nominal Debt Contracts

Narek Alexanian
September 5, 2023
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Student Research Workshop

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I investigate the conditions under which the coexistence of cash (outside money) and credit (inside money) can be supported in equilibrium and be welfare-improving. Asset managers exchange assets to diversify their portfolios using cash and credit with the latter being limited by a non-standard -yet incentive compatible- collateral constraint. If cash is more pledgeable than capital, an equilibrium where cash is “over-leveraged” is welfare-improving. For inflation low enough, debt promises are optimally backed solely by a cash multiple, yielding the emergence of nominal debt contracts.