Specification Tests of the Money Demand Function in an Open Economy

1985 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophocles N. Brissimis ◽  
John A. Leventakis
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Money Demand ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
Specification Tests ◽  
Money Demand Function

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of the Stability of Money Demand between Côte d’Ivoire And Ghana: An Application of ARDL Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Yao Kouadio Ange-Patrick ◽  
Drama Bédi Guy Hervé
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Money Demand ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Money Demand Function ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Stability

This paper empirically examined the broad money demand function and its stability in two West African countries namely Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana covering the period of 1980 to 2015 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds testing procedure. The empirical results confirm the stability of the money demand function and support the choice of M2 as a viable instrument for policy implementation in both countries cited above. The study also demonstrates that a long-run relationship exists between money aggregate (M2) and its determinants during the study period. In fact, the real income tends to be the most significant factor explaining the demand for broad money in both countries. In addition, the overall short run estimation of our model is statistically significant for Cote d’Ivoire and insignificant for Ghana at the conventional level. This means that money demand is stable for Cote d’Ivoire in short run and unstable for Ghana in the same period. It is recommended that monetary policy authorities should continue to implement policies that will reinforce macroeconomic stability and facilitate economic growth.

scholarly journals On the (Ir)Relevance of Monetary Aggregate Targeting in Pakistan: An Eclectic View

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-119
Author(s):  
Adnan Haider ◽  
Asad Jan ◽  
Kalim Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Money Demand ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Monetary Aggregate ◽  
Money Demand Function ◽  
Financial Innovations ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Nominal Anchor ◽  
Monetary Policy Framework

This study attempts to identify a stable money demand function for Pakistan’s economy, where the monetary aggregate is considered the nominal anchor. With evolving financial innovations and regulations, the stability of money demand has been the focus of numerous debates. Where earlier studies have provided conflicting explanations due to inadequate specifications and imprecise estimations, we find that money demand in Pakistan is stable, if specified properly. For developing countries such as Pakistan, it is important to target monetary aggregates or respond to deviations from the desirable path if monetary policy is to be effectively implemented and communicated; this should remain, if not a primary, then an auxiliary target in the monetary policy framework.

scholarly journals The Impact of Financial Innovation on the Money Demand Function: An Empirical Verification in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masudul Hasan Adil ◽  
Neeraj Hatekar ◽  
Pravakar Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Money Demand ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Correlated Errors ◽  
Bounds Testing ◽  
Money Demand Function ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact

Traditional money demand functions are often criticized for persistent over-prediction, implausible parameter estimates, highly serially correlated errors and unstable money demand. This study argues that some of these problems may have emerged for the lack of factoring financial innovation into the money demand function. This study estimates money demand for India during the post-reform period, from 1996:Q2 to 2016:Q3. The money demand function is estimated with the linear ARDL approach to cointegration developed by Pesaran, Shin, & Smith (2001), Bounds testing approaches to the analysis of level relationships, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(3), 289–326, after employing various proxies for financial innovation. In conclusion, the study finds that there is a stable long-run relationship among variables, such as real money balances, and the scale and opportunity cost variables. In a nutshell, the study assesses the relative importance of financial innovation variables in the money demand equation, and finds that financial innovation plays a very significant role in the money demand specification and its stability. JEL Classification: E41, E44, E42, E52, O16, O53

scholarly journals An intra-household approach to the welfare costs of inflation

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubens Penha Cysne
Keyword(s):  
Money Demand ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
Equilibrium Measure ◽  
Order Approximation ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Money Demand Function ◽  
Welfare Costs ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Order Approximation

The literature on the welfare costs of inflation universally assumes that the many-person household can be treated as a single economic agent. This paper explores what the heterogeneity of the agents in a household might imply for such welfare analyses. First, we show that allowing for a one-person or for a many-person transacting technology impacts the money demand function and, therefore, the welfare costs of inflation. Second, more importantly, we derive sufficient conditions under which welfare assessments which depart directly from the knowledge of the money demand function (as in Lucas, 2000) are robust (invariant) under the number of persons considered in the household. Third, we show that Bailey’s (1956) partial-equilibrium measure of the welfare costs of inflation can be obtained as a first-order approximation of the general-equilibrium welfare measure derived in this paper using a many-person transacting technology.

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