Financial liberalization and demand for money: a case of Pakistan

Rana Khan () and Qazi Muhammad Hye ()

Journal of Developing Areas, 2013, vol. 47, issue 2, 175-198

Abstract: Literature in economics has identified many channels through which the financial liberalization may affect demand for money. There are evidences of stability as well as instability of demand for money due to financial development for developing economies. The objective of the current study is to examine the effect of financial liberalization on demand for money in Pakistan, i.e. whether financial liberalization has affected the demand for money or not. The issue is important as stable demand for money function is a prerequisite for formulating and operating monetary policy. To achieve the objective JJ cointegration and auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) to the cointegration is employed to estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship between broad money M2 and composite financial liberalization index along with other determinants of demand for money like gross domestic product, real deposit rate and exchange rate. In order to assess the stability of the model, the parameter constancy tests, i.e. recursive residuals, CUSUM and CUSUMSQ tests have been applied. The empirical results indicated that for broad money, there exists long-run money demand function. The financial liberalization, gross domestic product and real deposit rate positively affect the demand for money in the long as well as short-run.

Keywords: demand for money; financial liberalization; real deposit rate; financial reform; Pakistan; ARDL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E41 E52 E58 F31 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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