Friedman held that "the demand for money is highly stable"; yet, he overlooked the conventional wisdom that the velocity of money would be accelerated substantially along with the institutional and technological changes. If no corrective factors to cancel the impact of the accelerative velocity...

There is a long-negligent defect in Friedman's monetary framework. Friedman overlooked the common wisdom that, in the long run, along with the institution and technology changes, the velocity of money would be accelerated substantially. If no corrective factors to cancel the impact of the...

Money demand in Venezuela is modeled using structural time series and error correction approaches, for the period 1993.1 to 2001.4. The preferred model features seasonal cointegration and was estimated following a structural time series approach. There are similarities in the long-run behavior...

The widespread belief that monetarism has failed is open to question. Certain strong monetarist positions have been damaged by unfolding events, but more moderate propositions live on in current "Keynesian" consensus

This paper focuses on simple normative rules for monetary policy that central banks can use to guide their interest rate decisions. Such rules were first derived from research on empirical monetary models with rational expectations and sticky prices built in the 1970s and 1980s. During the past...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the models used in New Monetarist Economics, which is our label for a body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for...

We study competitive search in goods markets in a heterogeneous-agent monetary model. The model accounts for three stylized facts connecting inflation to consumption inequality, to price dispersion, and to the speed of monetary payments. With competitive search, individuals’ endogenous...

Earlier studies in the finance literature show that macroeconomic fundamentals can predict excess bond returns. We employ a multi-level factor model to estimate global and sectoral factors separately and show that (i)the real factors possess most important predictive power existing in the panel;...

The UIP equation estimated for Poland shows that the reaction of the nominal exchange rate of zloty to the expected changes of the future interest rates (appreciation) has been almost twice as high as the exchange rate reaction to disparity changes (depreciation). If the budget deficit and...

I study the effects of long-run inflation and income taxation in an economy where households face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks. I construct a tractable competitive search framework that generates dispersion of prices, income and wealth. I analytically characterize the stationary equilibrium...