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We estimate the demand for transaction and non-transaction cash balances in Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway … over the last decades using the seasonal method. These countries share many features that are relevant for cash demand, but … nevertheless show large differences in terms of aggregate cash balances. While Canada, Iceland and Denmark have seen increased …
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There is much in our increasingly digitized economies to suggest that the use of cash should fall. However, in almost … developing countries and an extensive set of possible explanatory variables to estimate panel regressions for cash demand. In … new finding is that our estimations point to a negative relationship between cash and corruption, and between cash and …
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This paper demonstrates how a target for money growth can be beneficial for an inflation targeting central bank acting under discretion. Because the growth rate of money is closely related to the change in the interest rate and he growth of real output, delegating a money growth target to the...
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transactions and this residual is strong. -- Cash use ; demand for cash ; shadow economy ; National Accounts ; Financial Accounts …We use an “unexplained demand for cash” approach to measure the size of the shadow economy in Sweden. The size of the … changes in net financial positions. Moreover, the correlation between the demand for cash that cannot be explained by recorded …
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paper explains these differences between Canada and Sweden by focusing separately on the transactions demand for cash and on … product in both Canada and Sweden. This reflects similar experiences in decreasing cash use for transactions over time due to …Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might …
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In this paper, I investigate quantitatively how sensitive a typical backward-looking model used in monetary plicy analysis is to the Lucas critique. To do this, I use an equilibrium business cycle model with a Taylor-type rule for nominal money growth. The backward-looking model displays...
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In this paper, I try to shed some new light on the puzzle why the Lucas critique, belived to be important by most economists, seems to have received very little empirical support. I use a real business cycle model to examine the properties of the super exogeneity test, which is used to detect...
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We explore the implications of shocks to expected future productivity in a setting with limited enforcement of financial contracts. As in Lorenzoni andWalentin (2007) optimal financial contracts under limited enforcement imply that to obtain external finance firms have to post collateral in...
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Using panel data of 68,800 small and large firms, I examine whether firms are subject to shifts in the supply of credit over the business cycle. Shifts in the supply of credit are identified by exploring how firms substitute between commitment credit - lines of credit - and non-commitment...
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The properties of money commonly referenced in the economics literature were originally identified by Jevons (1876) and Menger (1892) in the late 1800s and were intended to describe physical currencies, such as commodity money, metallic coins, and paper bills. In the digital era, many...
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