The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

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Optimum Quantity of Money

  • Timothy S. Fuerst
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1740
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Abstract

The optimum quantity of money is a normative monetary policy conclusion drawn from the long-run properties of a theoretical model. Most famously associated with Milton Friedman, the optimum calls for a zero nominal rate of interest and thus a steady state of price deflation at the long-run real rate of interest. Although this policy prescription has played a minor role in monetary policy implementation, it has had an enormous influence in monetary theory.

Keywords

Bargaining Deflation Dynamic new Keynesian models Fiat money Friedman rule Friedman, M. Hold-up problem Inflation Monetary policy Optimal taxation Optimum quantity of money Search-theoretic monetary models Seigniorage Transactions role of money 

JEL Classifications

E31 E52 
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Acknowledgment

The author would like to thank Charles Carlstrom and John Hoag for their helpful comments.

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