Over the past twenty years, the monetary aggregates used by the Federal Reserve as indicators of economic activity and inflation have changed several times. Each of the changes in the measures of money was sparked by a breakdown in the fit of empirical money demand functions. The Federal...

AbstractThe following sections are included:Executive SummaryProposalWhy Restricting Activities Is the SolutionEvolution of Current Financial StructureRegulationIncreased CompetitionShadow BankingExpansion of Bank ActivitiesImplications for Financial Structure, Stability, and RiskChanges in...

This paper uses cointegration to model the time-series of corporate and government bond rates. We show that corporate rates are cointegrated with government rates and the relation between credit spreads and Treasury rates depends on the time horizon. In the short-run, an increase in Treasury...