Swofford and Whitney (1987) investigated the validity of two types of assumptions that underlie the representative agent models of modern macroeconomics and monetary economics. These assumptions are utility maximization and weak or functional separability that is required for an economic...

We estimate an asymptotically ideal model of the demand for UK personal sector monetary assets. We use data that are consistent with utility-maximizing behaviour, and find that UK monetary assets are generally substitutes in use. The estimated elasticities of substitution during the 1980s and...