(BQ) Part 1 book "A course in monetary economics - Sequential trade, money, and uncertainty" has contents: Money in the utility function, thewelfare cost of infiation in a growing economy, optimal fiscal and monetary policy, flexible prices, sticky prices with optimal quantity choices,.and other contents. | A COURSE IN MONETARY ECONOMICS SEQUENTIAL TRADE, MONEY, AND UNCERTAINTY Benjamin Eden © 2005 by Benjamin Eden 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Benjamin Eden to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eden, Benjamin. A course in monetary economics : sequential trade, money, and uncertainty / Benjamin Eden. p. cm. ISBN 0-631-21565-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-631-21566-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Money–Mathematical models. 2. Uncertainty–Mathematical models. I. Title 2005 01 51–dc22 2003020730 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12 1 Dante 2 by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by MPG Books, Bodmin, Cornwall For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: Brief Contents Preface Part I: Introduction to Monetary Economics 1 Overview xiii 1 5 2 Money in the Utility Function 26 3 The Welfare Cost of Inflation in a Growing Economy 57 4 Government 72 5 More Explicit Models of Money 86 6 Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy 100 7 Money and the Business Cycle: Does Money Matter? 123 8 Sticky Prices in a Demand-satisfying Model 147 9 Sticky Prices with Optimal Quantity Choices 155 10 Flexible Prices Part II: An Introduction to the Economics of Uncertainty 170 179 11 .