Following the study of U.S. regional data by Mulligan and Sala-i-Martin (1992) and the discussion by Fujiki and Mulligan (1996a) of empirical models of the demand for money, the paper uses Japanese prefectural data to estimate the parameters of a money demand function. The cross-sectional...

A framework for modeling the demand for money by households and firms is proposed. It allows for both endogenous and exogenous changes in the degree of financial sophistication as well as for multiple monetary assets.The framework is especially useful for interpreting and comparing the many...