As China's economy becomes more market based and continues its rapid integration into the global economy, having an independent and effective monetary policy regime oriented to domestic objectives will become increasingly important. Employing modern principles of monetary policy in light of the...

In any discussion of the demand for money it is important to be clear about the concept of money that is being utilized; otherwise, misunderstandings can arise because of the various possible meanings that readers could have in mind. Here the term will be taken to refer to an economy's medim of...

In any discussion of the demand for money it is important to be clear about the concept of money that is being utilized; otherwise, misunderstandings can arise because of the various possible meanings that readers could have in mind. Here the term will be taken to refer to an economy's medium of...

Recent and proposed changes in the Federal Reserve's monetary control procedures include the shift from a funds rate instrument to a non-borrowed reserve instrument in October 1979, reserve requirement reform embodied in the Monetary Control Act of 1980, and the consideration that has been given...

It has been sixteen years since a partial adjustment model was first applied in empirical money demand studies by Chow [1996]. Since then the partial adjustment specification has become widely used, particularly in quarterly money demand studies. However, in spite of its widespread use, the...

For industrial countries in the post-war period, the price level and the money stock have displayed little tendency to revert to given growth paths. Indeed, this stylized fact is frequently referred to by monetarist critics of central banks, who point out that periods of temporarily high or low...