This article uses an open economy model to estimate, using cointegration and error-correction analysis, China's monetary policy reaction function for the period 1993 to 2003. Alternative inflation-forecast-based (IFB) policy Taylor-type rules for the interest rate are examined and their...

pt. 1. Introduction and heritage -- pt. 2. Money in the economy -- pt. 3. The demand for money -- pt. 4. Monetary policy and central banking -- pt. 5. Monetary policy and the macroeconomy -- pt. 6. The rates of interest in the economy -- pt. 7. Overlapping generations models of money -- pt. 8....

We introduce a dynamic model of resource-grabbing by status-conscious agents, i.e., agents value not only their absolute consumption levels, but also the relative status within their reference group. We explore the effect of the concern for relative consumption on the growth rate and the welfare...

This paper uses cointegration and fractional cointegration techniques to test for purchasing power parity (PPP) between the Canadian and the US currencies during the floating exchange period from 1974:1 to 2001:12. The focus is on whether the deviations from the cointegrating relationship...

This article evaluates the plausibility of financial development as a tool to boost economic growth, using time series data on a cross-section of thirteen countries at different stages of development. Using annual data from 1960 to 2002, it conducts stationarity tests on the variables, followed...

Hong Kong is an open economy that uses foreign currencies extensively in domestic payments. This paper focuses on substitution between the domestic and foreign currencies in their role as media of payments in such an economy. It uses quarterly data to estimate currency substitution (CS) for Hong...