The purpose of the paper is to revisit the demand for money specifiections by using U.S. quarterly data over the sample period 1951:1 - 1983:4. Utilizing the so-called threshold models suggested by Tong and Lim (1980) we first demonstrate the unsatisfactory performance of standard linear partial...

This paper reports some policy experiments carried out with the QMED model of the Bank of Finland. The main issue in these experiments is the role of expectations. Thus, we compare a static expectations version with two rational expectations versions of the model. These two versions differ in...

This paper examines the question of whether budget deficits raise nominal interest rates. The empirical analyses make use of cross-country data from 16 countries covering the period 1924 - 1938 .. Contrary to some recent studies (by e.g. Evans), it turns out that budget deficits affect nominal...

This paper examines the determination of interest rates in small open economies. We use the classical interest rate parity relationships as a starting point in developing a test procedure which allows us to evaluate the importance of various domestic shocks (in particular, monetary and fiscal...

This paper presents some analyses of interest rate determination in six industrialized countries during the Great Depression. The main finding of the paper is that the huge real interest rate shocks experienced during that time were mainly due to policy actions by central banks.

In a recent paper, John Graham (1987) has argued that the life cycle approach. performs rather well in accounting for intercountry differences in household saving rates so that the negative evidence sometimes reported i s not warranted. This comment presents pieces of evidence against this view....

This paper studies the Granger causality between money, output, prices and nominal interest rates by making use of long time series from 11 countries. Empirical analyses, both in the time and frequency domain, suggest that money does not help in predicting movements in output over time. In fact,...

This paper investigates the determination of the current account. In particular, the role of aggregate saving shocks is analyzed using the saving-investment approach as a general frame of reference. Emphasis is paid to testing the Ricardian equivalence proposition. Testing is carried out using...