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The Demand for Money During High Inflation Episodes: Some Latin American Evidenceon the Cagan Model

By Mark P. Taylor, Kate Phylaktis

May 1, 1991

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Mark P. Taylor, and Kate Phylaktis. The Demand for Money During High Inflation Episodes: Some Latin American Evidenceon the Cagan Model, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 24, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the demand for money under conditions of very high inflation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru during the 1970s and 1980s. We test whether the monetary and inflationary experiences of these countries can be adequately characterized by the Cagan (1956) model, using an econometric procedure which is not reliant on any particular assumption concerning expectations formation except that forecasting errors are stationary. We also examine the importance of foreign asset substitution in domestic portfolios.

Subject: Demand for money, External position, Foreign assets, Government debt management, Inflation, Money, Price controls, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Bolivia program, Demand for money, Exchange premium, Expected return, Forecasting inflation, Foreign assets, Government debt management, Inflation, Inflation rate series, Money balance, Money holding, Money series, Price controls, Rate depreciation, Rate of inflation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/048

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0481991

  • ISBN:

    9781451846683

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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