Does money matter in the IS curve? : the case of the UK

by Barry E. Jones and Livio Stracca

Narrow and broad money measures (including Divisia aggregates) have been found to have explanatory power for UK output in backward-looking specifications of the IS curve. In this paper, we explore whether or not real balances enter into a forward-looking IS curve for the UK, building on the theoretical framework of Ireland (2004). To do this, we test for additive separability between consumption and money over a sizeable part of the post-ERM period using non-parametric methods. If consumption and money are not additively separable, then real money balances enter into the forward-looking IS curve (the converse does not hold, however). A main finding is that the UK data seem to be broadly consistent with additive separability for the the more recent period from 1999 to 2007

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Year of publication:	2008
Other Persons:	Jones, Barry E. (contributor) ; Stracca, Livio (contributor)
Publisher:	Frankfurt am Main : European Central Bank
Subject:	IS-LM-Modell \| IS-LM model \| Geldmenge \| Money supply \| Privater Konsum \| Private consumption \| Nichtparametrisches Verfahren \| Nonparametric statistics \| Statistischer Fehler \| Statistical error \| Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| 1999-2007