A Simple Classroom Experiment on Money Demand

Results of a massive experiment on virtual currency endowments and money demand

We use a 575,000-subject, 28-day experiment to investigate monetary policy in a virtual setting. The experiment tests the effect of virtual currency endowments on player retention and virtual currency demand. An increase in endowments of a virtual currency should lower the demand for the currency in the short run. However, in the long run, we would expect money demand to rise in response to inf...

Choosing Partners: A Classroom Experiment

We describe a classroom experiment designed to present the idea of two-sided matching, the concept of a stable assignment, and the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance mechanism. Participants need no prior training in economics or game theory, but the exercise will also interest trained economists and game theorists.

Money demand in Euroland

This paper explores the determinants of alternative monetary aggregates in Euroland. A sample consisting of quarterly data covering the 1980:1–1998:4 period is considered. We are interested whether a conventionally defined money demand equation is stable in some aggregates as opposed to others. Both long-run and short-run relationships are considered in this paper. Overall, the results indicate...

Comment on Barry Friedman's Demand for Money

International Evidence on the Demand for Money

One of the current questions in the literature on she demand for money is whether the adjustment of actual lo desired money holdings is in nominal or real terms. This paper describes a simple procedure that can be used to test the nominal against the real hypothesis. The test is carried out for 27 countries. The paper also tests the svuctural stability of the demand for money equations and the ...