Over the next 10 years a major controversy developed over whether the Federal Reserve recognized or placed enough emphasis on its responsibility for controlling the growth of the money stock. The related question of which operating strategy to follow in controlling the money stock was pushed to the background. Economists can argue at great lengths over the extent to which the Federal Reserve tr...

This paper contributes to the analysis of the money supply process in Germany during the period of monetary targeting by the Bundesbank from 1975-1998. While the standard money multiplier approach assumes that the money stock is determined by the money multiplier and the monetary base it is argued here that both the money stock and the monetary base are determined endogenously by the optimizing...

Billions of dollars worth of shares are traded in the stock market on a daily basis. Many people depend on the stock market as their primary source of income while others have their retirement funds tied to the stock market. The importance of “good” performance of the stock market is obvious. History has shown that a downturn in stock prices can cause major disturbances in the lives of many. Al...

We design a procedure for measuring the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition of the economic stock of money, we compute the U.S. economic stock of money b...

We introduce a money demand motive in a life-cycle portfolio choice model and estimate the structural parameters that can generate limited stock market participation and plausible holdings of money, bonds and stocks. The model predicts an increase in bond holdings over the life cycle, and a declining share of money in portfolios as wealth increases. Both predictions are consistent with the data...

This paper examines the role of money in understanding the behavior of asset prices and whether and how monetary policy should react to asset prices such as stock prices and equity premiums. To do so, I introduce money via the form of transaction cost into a production economy with limited stock market participation where agents with lower inter-temporal elasticity of substitution (IES), called...

This paper examines the effects of selected macroeconomic variables on the stock market index in Iran. Using quarterly data, we examine the relationships between the Tehran Stock Index (TSI) and five macroeconomic variables which consist of gross domestic product, nominal effective exchange rate, money supply, gold coin price and investment in housing sector from 1996:1 to 2008:1.Various e...

in this section of the journal, a summary of theses completed at the m.b.a level is presented. the title of these are: 1- the effect of financing methods on the stock price on the tehran stock exchange by mohammad rahmani 2- the effect of money supply on the exchange rate in iran by minuo kiani -red 3- an investigation of the reasons for price volatility of stock price an tehran on the stock ex...

Based on a comprehensive investigation on Chinese Stock Market and macroeconomic policies, analyzing samples of the SSE Composite Index and relevant monetary and fiscal policies during the period from January 2000 to June 2008, this paper uses GARCH-type models and EVIEWS5.1 software to study effects of changes in macroeconomic policy on conditional volatility of Chinese Stock Market and analyz...