Short-run dynamics in a search-theoretic model of monetary exchange

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An heterogeneous-agent New-Monetarist model with an application to unemployment

“…The quantity  can be interpreted as the nominal interest rate on an illiquid bond that can be held by entrepreneurs only. 11 By the same reasoning as above, aggregate real balances are:…”