It is frequently argued that an increase in the rate of growth of money or credit will lead to an increase in economic activity. This paper addresses this issue by looking at the lead/lag relationship between a range of financial aggregates and several measures of economic activity for Australia...

This paper focusses on the empirical relationship between financial indicators (monetary and credit aggregates and short-term interest rates) and measures of economic activity. It aims to supplement an earlier paper by Bullock, Morris and Stevens (1988) (BMS), which explored these issues. BMS...

This paper reports estimation and testing of general lag formulations of demand for M1, M3 and broad money (BM) using new data for the own rates of return on money. Own rate effects have become more important in the recently-deregulated financial environment. Own interest rates are found to be...

Opinion on the stability or otherwise of the demand for money in Australia can be characterised as divided. In this paper, several conventional single-equation models representing the demand for money are re-estimated with extended and revised data sets, and subjected to a range of stability...