Economists have frequently argued that the money supply is endogenously determined. However, monetary regimes differ in important institutional respects and it may be that endogeneity may be true for some regimes and not for others. This paper tests for endogeneity of money supply in the G7...

It is widely accepted that loans cause deposits. Hitherto, though, the empirical evidence has come from bivariate causality tests which we now know can give rise to invalid inference if either of the two variables is causally influenced by some third, omitted, variable. In this paper we have...