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A granular investigation on the stability of money demand

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  • Chen, Zhengyang
  • Valcarcel, Victor J.

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A large literature has shown money demand functions constructed from simple-sum aggregates are unstable. We revisit the controversy surrounding the instability of money demand by examining cointegrating income-money relationships with the Divisia monetary aggregates for the U.S., and compare them with their simple-sum counterparts. We innovate by conducting a more granular analysis of various monetary assets and their associated user costs. We find characterizing money demand with simple-sum measures only works well in a period preceding 1980. Divisia aggregates, their components, and their user costs provide a more reliable interpretation of money demand. Subsample analysis across 1980 and 2008 suggests the instability of money demand is a matter of measurement rather than a consequence of a structural change in agents’ preference for monetary assets.

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  • Chen, Zhengyang & Valcarcel, Victor J., 2024. "A granular investigation on the stability of money demand," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, issue FirstView, pages 1-26.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:303477
    DOI: 10.1017/S1365100524000427
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