This study investigates the sources of cross-country income disparities in the context of time series dynamics for both aggregate and sectoral levels. We first introduce a new approach for testing income disparity persistence across countries. The method proposed by Pesaran, Pierse, and Lee...

This paper develops a shopping-time model in an open economy framework to motivate the specification of money demand. This microfoundations-of-money model allows me to choose which variables, and in what forms, should be used in the empirical money demand function. In particular, the model...