This study examines the empirical contents of precautionary demand for transactions money balances. Panel data are utilized to construct estimates of income variance. Regression results indicate that income uncertainty has a positive effect on precautionary money demand, but the magnitude of the...

In recent decades, the United States has not only experienced great economic changes in the financial markets but also undergone tremendous social and demographic transformations. Based on the life-cycle theory of consumption and saving, Keynes’s concept of marginal propensity to save, and...