Empirical studies of substitutability among monetary assets generally ignore financial instruments that only recently have become prominent. We remedy this deficiency by investigating substitution behavior within a portfolio of near-monies, including money market accounts and interest-bearing...

This paper investigates the question as to whether the volatility of the monetary aggregates arises primarily from the behavior of the monetary base or the monetary multipliers. The findings indicate that the monetary multipliers are more volatile than the base, regardless of the definition of...

The Allen elasticity of substitution (AES) is widely used to study monetary asset substitution and structural demand stability. C. Blackorby and R. R. Russell (1989) show that the AES is uninformative and that the Morishima elasticity of substitution (MES) is the appropriate measure, a point...

This paper examines the ability of the slope of the yield curve to serve as a predictor of regional recessions. The ability of interest rate spreads to predict recessions has received considerable attention at the aggregate level. This paper offers evidence on the usefulness of rate spreads in...

This study investigates monetary impacts within the regional economies of the United States. It provides updated evidence on regional impacts and examines how impacts have changed over time. Using vector autoregression (VAR) methods, impacts are investigated for the overall period (1959-2003),...

A number of important monetary and financial changes occurred in the 1980s. A rising question among monetary economists is whether the character of M1 has changed substantially as a result. In particular, a frequent contention is that interest-bearing checkable deposits behave as a savings-type...

Financial deregulation in 1980 potentially altered key relationships between residential fixed investment (RFI) and key macroeconomic variables. This study uses a vector error correction model to examine relationships between RFI, money, interest rates, and output in pre-deregulation and...