Showing 1 - 10 of 26,336
This paper investigates the determinants of money demand (M3) in the euro area. It specifically examines the potential impact of financial and housing wealth on money demand. It tests the hypothesis, whether wealth associated with increases in asset prices is used to finance liquidity holdings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045941
countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682890
This paper investigates money demand in the Dominican Republic. The study employs monthly economic time series covering a period of stabilization and rapid economic growth alongside financial dollarization. The analysis reveals meaningful long-run relations for narrow and for broad monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213020
substitutability on exchange rates, international adjustment and the inflation tax are discussed. The paper also reviews the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124337
Using Japanese money market data, this paper compares the predictive ability of the log–log specification with infinite elasticity at a zero interest rate and the semilog specification with a one time switch from moderate to relatively high semielasticity at annual interest rates less than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010594797
A smooth progression from Stage Two to Stage Three of EMU requires that the type of policy planned for Stage Three should be foreshadowed in Stage Two. Two possibilities for that policy are monetary targeting or an interest rate policy feeding back on a nominal variable. The paper re-examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666415
the elasticity is very small for interest rates below 5% suggests that the welfare costs of inflation are small. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666631
In this paper we examine why monetary aggregates of euro area Member States have developed differently since the inception of the euro. We derive a money demand equation that incorporates housing wealth and collateral as well as substitution effects on real money holdings. Empirically, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574387
is irrelevant for monetary policy because central banks affect economic activity and inflation by (i) controlling a very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875185
This paper provides an overview of inflation developments in Vietnam in the years following the doi moi reforms, and … uses empirical analysis to answer two key questions: (i) what are the key drivers of inflation in Vietnam, and what role … does monetary policy play? and (ii) why has inflation in Vietnam been persistently higher than in most other emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930777