The Asymptotically Ideal Model (AIM), first estimated by Barnett and Yue (1998), based on the Muntz-Szatz series expansion as described by Barnett and Jonas (1983) is used to estimate money demand using quarterly US data from 1960 to the first quarter of 2004. We find that monetary assets are...

We exposit the link between money, velocity and prices in an inventory-theoretic model of the demand for money and explore the extent to which such a model can account for the short-run volatility of velocity, the negative correlation of velocity and the ratio of money to consumption, and the...