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Monetary Dynamics and Gold Dinar: An Empirical Perspective الديناميكة النقدية والدينار الذهبي : منظور تجريبي

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  • Mansor H. Irahm

    (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia)

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According to proponents of Gold Dinar particularly Meera and Aziz (2002), termed as Dinarists’, the fiat monetary system is inherently unstable. In providing an empirical perspective on this contention, this paper investigates monetary dynamics of a Muslim economy, Malaysia. To this end, the paper adopts a vector autoregressive (VAR) framework to document dynamic interactions between money supply and various macroeconomic variables including real output, price level, interest rate and stock prices. The results seem to provide some support for the Dinarists’ contention. First, the results portray clearly an important causal role of money supply for other macroeconomic variables. Second, we document some evidence that expansion in money supply is inflationary. Lastly, money supply – interest rate and money supply – stock price interactions are destabilizing. More importantly, expansion in money supply has the potential of breeding asset price bubbles. However, apart from the above findings, we also find that money supply reacts positively to increase in real output. Since the accommodative role of money supply is necessary or a pre-condition for expansion in production, arguments for Gold Dinar need to be qualified. Moreover, the viability of Gold Dinar comes into question when political and international aspects of monetary standards are considered. بحسب الداعين إلى الدينار الذهبي وخاصة منهم ميرا وعزيز ( 2002) والمشار إليهم بالديناريين، فإن النقود الورقية غير مستقرة أصلاً. ولتقديم نظرة قياسية على هذا القول تبحث هذه الورقة الديناميكية النقدية لدولة مسلمة ـ ماليزيا. وللوصول إلى هذا الهدف فان الورقة تستخدم طريقة الارتداد الذاتي لقياس العلاقات الديناميكية بين عرض النقود ومختلف المتغيرات الكلية بما فيها المنتج الحقيقي، ومستوى الأسعار ، وسعر الفائدة ، وأسعار الأسهم. ونتائج البحث تبدو وكأنها تدعم رأي الديناريين. أولاً : تبدي النتائج بوضوح دوراً مهماً لتأثير عرض النقود على المتغيرات الكلية. ثانياً : تبين بعض الأدلة أن التوسع في عرض النقود تضخمي. وأخيراً : تفاعل عرض النقود وسعر الفائدة وأسعار الأسهم غير داعم للاستقرار. وأهم من ذلك فإن التوسع في عرض النقود له إمكانية توليد فقاعات في أسعار الأصول. إلا أنه وبغض النظر عن ذلك نجد أيضا أن عرض النقود يتفاعل إيجابيا مع زيادة المنتج الحقيقي. وبما أن الدور الاستيعابي لعرض النقود ضرورة أو شرط أساسي للتوسع في الإنتاج، فإن حجج الداعين إلى الدينار الذهبي تحتاج الى تقييم. بالإضافة إلى ذلك كله فإن قابلية نجاح الدينار الذهبي تتأرجح عندما تؤخذ بعين الاعتبار النواحي السياسية والدولية المؤثرة في المعايير النقدية.

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  • Mansor H. Irahm, 2006. "Monetary Dynamics and Gold Dinar: An Empirical Perspective الديناميكة النقدية والدينار الذهبي : منظور تجريبي," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 19(2), pages 3-20, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:19:y:2006:i:2:no:1:p:3-20
    DOI: 10.4197/islec.19-2.1
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