Reexamining the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Interwar Demand for Money

Christopher Baum and Clifford Thies ()

No 384, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper reexamines whether the term structure of interest rates, rather than merely a single interest rate, should be included in the demand for money of the interwar era. In contrast to earlier work, we use cointegration techniques to model the equilibrium/error correction process, and find that a sufficiently rich dynamic model using a single interest rate has considerable explanatory power. Nevertheless, we conclude that the inclusion of the term structure may help to explain the turbulent monetary dynamics of the Depression era.

Keywords: demand for money; interwar period; term structure of interest rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 E41 E42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 1997-09-01
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Published, Journal of Economics and Finance, 1998, 22:2-3, 5-12.

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