In a surprisingly growing number of regions in Germany private "regional currencies" are issued as a cash substitute for the euro. Currently, these regional currencies are conceived almost exclusively as Schwundgeld (depreciative currency), which loses value on a predetermined timescale. This...

In this paper we explore the evidence that would establish that Dutch disease is at work in, or poses a threat to, the Kazakh economy. Assessing the mechanism by which fluctuations in the price of oil can damage non-oil manufacturing and thus long-term growth prospects in an economy that relies...

McKinnon’s complementarity hypothesis articulates that money and physicalcapital complements each other instead of substituting under a repressed financialsector. In spite of various economic and financial reforms in Myanmar, thefinancial sector of Myanmar is lagging behind international...

McKinnon’s complementarity hypothesis articulates that money and physicalcapital complements each other instead of substituting under a repressed financialsector. In spite of various economic and financial reforms in Myanmar, thefinancial sector of Myanmar is lagging behind international...

Within a cointegrated VAR framework I show that the traditional money-demand relation, determined by a transaction effect and the opportunity cost of holding money, can no longer explain the recent development of monetary aggregates in Denmark. Instead, I argue that the introduction of housing...

The stable money demand function is a crucial policy tool of the monetary policy of any central bank, which links the monetary sector of an economy to its real sector. Notably, after the global financial crisis of 2007-08, the role of money has come to be envisaged as an essential issue while...

Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of England changed its rate very frequently. Why did the policies of these central banks, the two pillars of the gold standard, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to...

Although stable money demand functions are crucial for the monetary model of the exchange rate, empirical research on exchange rates and money demand is more or less disconnected. This paper tries to fill the gap for the Euro/Dollar exchange rate. We investigate whether monetary disequilibria...

This paper develops a Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) model for the Ghanaian economy to estimate the pass-through effects of exchange rate changes to consumer prices. The model incorporates the special features of the Ghanaian Economy, especially its dependence on foreign aid and primary...

El objetivo principal de la presente investigación es hacer un análisis empírico sobre las relaciones de interdependencia dinámicas entre las remesas familiares, la demanda de dinero y el tipo de cambio real en la economía dominicana. Para tales fines, estimamos un Vector de Corrección de...