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Ramsey-Friedman Optimality With Banking Time, Max Gillman, Oleg Yerokhin

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This chapter conducts a Ramsey analysis within an endogenous growth cashin-advance economy with policy commitment. Credit and money are alternative payment mechanisms that act as inputs into the household production of exchange. The credit is produced with a diminishing returns technology with Inada conditions that implies along the balanced-growth path a degree one homogeneity of effective banking time. This tightens the restrictions found within shopping time economies while providing a production basis for the Ramsey-Friedman optimum that suggests a special case of Diamond and Mirrlees (1971).