This paper examines the effect of inflation on real growth in a Solow growth model using data from a cross section of countries over a 30-year period. The advantage of using a theoretical model is that it reduces the risk that the results will reflect data-mining. The results suggest that the 5 percentage point reduction in inflation from the 1970s to the 1980s would increase the growth rate of...

-Monetary policy operates in a different environment than it did a decade ago. Financial market innovations have eroded the distinctions among monetary assets, making the definition of money increasingly arbitrary. Deregulation of interest rates and banking activity is changing the behavior of the monetary aggregates, as banks pay interest on monetary assets and nonbanks offer monetary-like ass...

This paper focuses on internal and external factors, which influence the inflation rate in developing countries. A monetary model of inflation rate, capable of incorporating both monetary and fiscal policies as well as other internal and external factors, was developed and tested on Iranian data. It was found that, over the long run, a higher exchange rate leads to a higher price and that the f...

Divisia money is a monetary aggregate that gives each component an assigned weight. We use an evolutionary neural network to calculate new Divisia weights for each component utilising the Bank of England monetary data for the U.K. We propose a new money aggregate using our newly derived weights to carry out quantitative inflation prediction. The results show that this new money aggregate has be...

The paper reports on the results of estimating both the longand short-run demand for money function in New Zealand, 1990–2000 using quarterly data and cointegrationand error-correction-based models. It is found that price, real income and interest rate variables are integrated of order 1 or I(1). Using Phillips and Hansen [Rev. Econ. Stud. 57 (1990) 99] fully modified estimation methods, we est...

In the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, models used for monetary policy analysis combined the assumption of nominal rigidity with a simple structure that linked the quantity of money to aggregate spending. While the theoretical foundations of these models were weak, the approach proved remarkably useful in addressing a wide range of monetary policy topics.1 Today, the standard approach in monetar...

The fundamental economic paradigms of our time are not being rewritten as a result of the emergence of European monetary union. Rather, it was a revolution in economic theory that helped make possible the creation of a European common currency. In the 1960s it was believed that there is a long-run tradeo¤ between in‡ation and unemployment and output; society can choose to have a higher level of...

I study a DSGE model incorporating a monetary transactions technology in which a representative household invests time to improve its skill (human capital) in making transactions. The model is designed to reconcile salient shortand long-run features of the relationship between money, income, and the opportunity cost of holding money. An econometric reduced form, derived analytically, is reveali...

One of the major issues associated with the short-run aggregate money demand is that the speed of adjustment has become very slow or even negative when the post-1973 periods are included in regressions. This implies that the long-run effects of income, wealth, or the opportunity costs on money demand may be so large that a small change in any of these variables would lead to unreasonably large ...

We study the transmission of monetary policy in credit economies where money serves as a medium of exchange. We find that—in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics—the role of money in transactions can be a powerful conduit to asset prices and ultimately, aggregate consumption, investment, output, and welfare. Theoretically, we show that the ca...