This paper investigates the usefulness of the money demand relationship in times of unconventional monetary policies by cointegration methods. In contrast to the bulk of the literature, evidence in favour of a stable long run money demand function is presented both for the US and the euro area....

Makroökonometrische Modelle sind in Deutschland aus der kurzfristigen Wirtschaftsprognose und der Prozeßanalyse nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die Entwicklung dahin war zwar auch von Verlangsamungen und Unterbrechungen begleitet - die generelle Disreputation der Makroökonomie in den siebziger...

Die Geldmenge M3 steigt seit einigen Jahren stärker, als es der Referenzwert der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) vorsieht. Die überschüssige Liquiditätsversorgung wird oftmals als Indikator für aufkommende Infl ationsgefahren interpretiert, denen die EZB möglichst frühzeitig durch...

This paper examines the relevance of the Lucas critique for euro area money demand. Based on the money in the utility function approach, a vector error correction model is specified to investigate the relationship between money and inflation in times of policy shifts. A well defined equation for...

In recent times, a large number of studies has investigated the empirical properties of financial cycles within countries, mainly based on band-pass filter techniques. The contribution of this paper to the literature is twofold. First, in contrast to most existing studies in the financial cycle...

This paper introduces parametric spectrum estimation to the analysis of financial cycles. Our contribution is to formally test properties of financial cycles and to characterize their international interaction in the frequency domain. Existing work argues that the financial cycle is considerably...

Using Swiss data from 1983 to 2008, this paper investigates whether growth rates of the different measures of the quantity of money and or excess money can be used to forecast inflation. After a preliminary data analysis, money demand relations are specified, estimated and tested. Then,...