In reaction to the monetary turmoil created by the financial crisis of September 2008, both legislative and constitutional reforms have been proposed in different Countries to introduce Commodity Money alongside existing National Fiat Currency. A thorough evaluation of the Economic consequences of these new proposals is warranted. This paper surveys some of the existing knowledge in Monetary an...

HE money-inflation relationship has been examined extensively for avariety of economies resulting in a consensus that money growth has had a significant and positive impact on inflation.’ A related, but little studied issue, is the relationship between money growth rates across countries. This issue is important for assessing the extent to which inflation pressures have been transmitted froni c...

1. Money has three functions: it is a store of value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange. As a store of value, money provides a way to transfer purchasing power from the present to the future. As a unit of account, money provides the terms in which prices are quoted and debts are recorded. As a medium of exchange, money is what we use to buy goods and services. 2. Fiat money is establi...

Existence of a monetary steady state is established in a random matching model with divisible goods, divisible money, an arbitrary bound on individual money holdings, and take-it-or-leave-it offers by consumers. The monetary steady state shown to exist has nice properties: the value function, defined on money holdings, is strictly increasing and strictly concave, and the distribution over money...

Prediction markets are mechanisms that aggregate information such that an estimate of the probability of some future event is produced. It has been established that both real-money and play-money prediction markets are reasonably accurate. An SPRTlike test is used to determine whether there are statistically significant differences in accuracy between the two markets. The results establish that...

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper examines the relationship between non-collateralized debt (NCD) and health behaviors. The results reveal that households whose members tend to lead less healthy lifestyles are more likely to hold NCD. Obesity of either spouse is associated with about 7 percentage point increase in the probability of holding NCD. Similarly, wife’s smoking is a...

In this study, 512 adults completed two questionnaires. One questionnaire was devised specifically for this study concerning childhood memories of parental money beliefs and behaviors, which were passed to children (i.e., moneygrams). The second questionnaire established a measure of " money pathology " (Forman, 1987). The moneygram questionnaire was based on clinical cases and idiographic stud...

The study aimed at showing how to create and release cryptocurrency, based on which one can introduce a new generation of this money that can continue its life in the quantum computers space and study whether cryptocurrency could be controlled or the rules should be rewritten in line with new technology. Regarding this, we showed the evolution of money and its uses in economic relations. Accord...

In developing countries, although money is becoming digital in the form of mobile money, it is not easily used by millions of illiterate users in their everyday transactions. Digitization of material money thus poses a challenge to many users. Existing mobile money systems and platforms represent money in terms of simple numbers, like 13, 50, 0.78, 23.64, 80 etc. This way of money representatio...