This paper explores the relevance of the Divisia monetary aggregate in Taiwan over the period January, 1985 through to June, 2016. We apply a block recursive structural Vector Autoregressive (VAR) approach that is adapted to a small open economy by adding the New Taiwan Dollar/US Dollar exchange...

We develop the principal component analysis (PCA) approach to systematic liquidity measurement by introducing moving and expanding estimation windows. We evaluate these methods along with traditional estimation techniques (full sample PCA and market average) in terms of ability to explain (1)...