This book presents a number of recent developments in demand analysis. These include new, simple data-analytic techniques for analysing consumption data; new tests based on computer simulations for hypothesis testing; new methodological results on how to estimate demand equations; innovative...

This paper presents secular evidence on the income velocity of money balances. Under a variety of specifications and statistical techniques, employed on both traditional and non-traditional variables, the Friedman assertion that money is a superior good is found to lack empirical support....