This paper considers the causal relationship between economic and financial development, making some allowance for financial liberalization. The measures of financial development (and variants thereof) advocated in the literature are utilized, supplemented by some simple quantitative mesures.

This paper considers the link between financial and economic development. It does so by using cointegration and ECM modelling. The test procedures used to suggest that the structure of the relationships between those two forms of development did not differ over the pre- and post- liberalisation...

This paper evaluates the predictive powerof the term structure of short-temr interest rates in the Tokyo money market. The econometrics show tha the information contained in yield spreads affects the average short-term interest rates up to only three months at best. In addition, few 'settlement...

In this paper we consider the relationship between output, the price level and the Central Bank's broad money aggregate, M2, which is a simple sum of six 'monies'. We consider by way of comparison a divisia index, which we adjust to allow, in the alternatively and conceptually divergent ways,...