This paper reexamines the role of money demand for the local dynamics of a sticky price model where money enters the utility function and monetary policy is either conducted according to a Taylor-type interest rate rule or to a Friedman-type constant money growth rule. It is shown that activeness, which is commonly recommended as a device for a stabilizing interest rate policy, leads to stable ...

Any recession by definition is associated with an excessive liquidity preference. An ex ante excess supply of goods and services, i.e. the demand for goods and services falling short of the base output at the base prices corresponding to that output, which is what a recession is, must be associated with an ex ante excess demand for money at that output and prices. This is simply Walras’ Law. Th...

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...

We use data from Public Opinion Surveys on Household Financial Assets and Li-abilities from 1991 to 2002 to investigate the issues of unobserved heterogeneity amongcross-sectional units and stability of Japanese aggregate money demand function. Condi-tions that permit individual data and aggregate data to be modeled under one consistentformat are given. Alternative definitions o...

In this article we examine money demand issues using cross‐country data, for 48 countries over the 1980‐1995 period. In particular, we investigate conventional money demand functions, for both narrow and broad aggregates, and the role that insti tutions, financial structure and financial development may have in the demand for money. On the basis of possible heterogeneity within the cross-countr...

This paper examines the relation between money and housing variables in the euro area and in the US. Our empirical model is based on a standard money demand relation which is augmented by housing market variables. In doing so, co-integrated money demand relationships can be established for both the euro area and the US. Furthermore, we find evidence for asset inflation channels, that is, liquid...

This paper discusses the money demand function in China. We use Cointegration technique and Error Correction Model to estimate the long-run and short -run money demand function. We find that M2 aggregate appears to be cointegrated with price level and income. We also specified a satisfying error correction model for M2.

China has been enjoyed a fast economic growth in the last three decades. One of the important reasons is its financial reform and development in banking sector. More and more foreign banks and nonstate-owned banks participate into the competition in banking industry. The productivity of banking sector keeps growing dramatically during the golden decade between the 1997 Asian financial crisis an...

The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence on how the zero-interest rate policy implemented by the Bank of Japan has affected the sensitivity of money demand with respect to the opportunity cost of holding money. To the empirical ends of the analysis, the study makes use of the univariate conditional autoregressive value-at-risk (CAViaR) estimator to obtain robust quantile measures. The ...