IMF Working Papers

The Demand for Money in Developing Countries: Assessing the Role of Financial innovation

By Jose De Gregorio, Peter Wickham, Patricio Arrau, Carmen Reinhart

May 1, 1991

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Jose De Gregorio, Peter Wickham, Patricio Arrau, and Carmen Reinhart. The Demand for Money in Developing Countries: Assessing the Role of Financial innovation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

Traditional specifications of money demand have been commonly plagued by persistent overprediction, implausible parameter estimates, and highly autocorrelated errors. This paper argues that some of those problems stem from the failure to account for the impact of financial innovation. We estimate money demand for ten developing countries employing various proxies for the innovation process and provide an assessment of the relative importance of this variable. We find that financial innovation plays an important role in determining money demand and its fluctuations, and that the importance of this role increases with the rate of inflation.

Subject: Consumption, Currencies, Demand for money, Income, Inflation, Money, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Business money demand, Consumption, Currencies, Demand for money, Income, Inflation, Money balance, Money decision, Money demand function, Money demand specification, Money holding, Opportunity cost, Opportunity cost of money, Opportunity cost variable, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/045

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0451991

  • ISBN:

    9781451974218

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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