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money growth might be an important determinant of cyclical developments in real GDP beyond effects already captured by short … properties are also maintained when looking at a broader set of non-monetary indicator variables. Narrow money therefore seems …. As a result, once the information from narrow money is taken into account, what matters more for the forecast performance …
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's rule: short run increases in the money stock - whether through issuing spending coupons, open market operations or foreign … exchange intervention - change nothing as long as the money stock shrinks in the long run. Second, two simple ``Keynesian …
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% of the US currency supply is “missing” and an estimated ten trillion dollars of cash payments can not be accounted for … include only domestically held currency. The paper defines and estimates the size of the ‘domestic money supply”. Reference …
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individuals use money to make transactions, and hence microfoundations for the cash in advance constraint. We analyze the … specialized merchant, the carrier, appears and causes frictions among traders leading to the appearance of money. There are … chosen to act as money, and the level of economic development. …
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Argentina’s money and banking system was hit hard by the Great Depression. The banking sector was awash with bad assets … focuses on the inside-outside money relationship in a system of fractional-reserve banking and gold-standard rules. This … insolvent, the currency board started bailing out the system using high-powered money. Thus came about the demise of the …
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In this paper we analyse the potential for lending booms in three biggest new EU member states (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) during the process of Euro adoption. Experience of old members (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) as well as econometric evidence speak in favour of strong increases in...
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This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …
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The paper provides an empirical analysis of the demand for money function in Uganda. It argues that monetary policy … economy. An error correction model is used to examine the character of the demand for money – in particular if it is stable in … order for traditional monetary policy to be effective. The evidence on Uganda suggests that the demand for money function is …
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In specifications of tastes and technology, econometricians often impose curvature globally, but monotonicity only locally or not at all. In fact monotonicity rarely is even mentioned in that literature. But without satisfaction of both curvature and monotonicity, the second order conditions for...
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Many public policy decisions require analytical and empirical knowledge concerning the size, growth, causes and consequences of the ‘underground economy”. This paper seeks to clarify the meaning of underground activity, updates various discrepancy and fiscal estimates of its size and growth,...
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