MONEY DEMAND, FINANCIAL DISTRESS, AND EXCHANGE-RATE UNCERTAINTY IN INDONESIA

Paul D. Mc Nelis
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Paul D. Mc Nelis: Georgetown University Washington, D.C

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, 2000, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: This paper examines the demand for currency and quasi-money in Indonesia with linear and neural network models. The goal is to predict better the recent financial distress, reflected by the flight into currency and decline of quasi-money. The results show that neural network approaches, much more than linear models, are capable of accurate out-of-sample predictions for both monetary aggregates. However, for the very turbulent period of November and December of 1997, even the neural network models show large out-of-sample forecast errors. When a proxy for exchange-rate uncertainty supplements the network models, the out-of-sample currency demand becomes quite accurate, even for the last month of 1997. The quasi-money demand forecast also improve, although not as dramatically as those of currency demand. The analysis shows that a credible program, which reduces uncertainty in exchange-rate expectations, may mitigate the flight into currency from broad money, and the ensuing demonetization of the financial sector.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.21098/bemp.v3i1.287

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