Gold and US money demand

Is the US Demand for Money Unstable?

The demand for money (M1) for the USA is estimated with annual data from 1960-2008 and its stability is analyzed with the extended Gregory and Hansen (1996b) test. In addition to estimating the canonical specification, alternative specifications are estimated which include a trend and additional variables to proxy the cost of holding money. Results with our extended specification showed that th...

Effects of Presence of Monetary Policy Makers in Mass Media on Money Demand, Exchange rate and Gold Price in Iran

Investigating the effect of the presence of the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) on the media environment on the money and asset markets, in addition to raising our understanding of how the individuals’ expected patterns from the future of prices, leads to a more realistic understanding of the transmission of shocks and the volatilities spillover. According to the results of this stud...

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...

Domestic Money and US Output and Inflation

Recent empirical research found that the strong short-term relationship between monetary aggregates and US real output and inflation, as outlined in the classical study by M. Friedman and Schwartz, mostly disappeared since the early 1980s. In the light of the B. Friedman and Kuttner (1992) information value approach, we reevaluate the vanishing relationship between US monetary aggregates and th...

Payment Cards and Money Demand in Belgium