Barigozzi, Matteo and Conti, Antonio (2012) Understanding Euro area money demand. . The Authors. (Submitted)
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Following the renewed interest for the role of money and credit in monetary policy, we assess the usefulness of long-run money demand equations for the European Central Bank. We perform a model evaluation exercise by means of the time varying cointegration test by Bierens and Martins (2010), comparing different models claiming to find a stable behaviour of Euro Area monetary aggregate M3. A time-invariant long-run relation is not rejected by data, when correctly specifying the set of explanatory variables. In particular, we find that the most relevant drivers of real money balances are a speculative motive represented by international financial markets, and a precautionary motive proxied by changes in the unemployment rate. We then estimate a stable cointegrated VAR including both motives, which allows us (i) to explain the anomalous behavior of M3 in the last decade and during the recent Great Financial Crisis, and (ii) to build a leading indicator of stock market busts. Our results have not negligible implications for policy decisions aimed at achieving financial stability.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1599669 |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Statistics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C3 - Econometric Methods: Multiple; Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables; Endogenous Regressors > C32 - Time-Series Models E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E41 - Demand for Money E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E51 - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2012 08:33 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/43341 |
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