The case for a financial approach to money demand

Xavier Ragot

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2014, vol. 62, issue C, 94-107

Abstract: The distribution of money across households is much more similar to the distribution of financial assets than to that of consumption expenditures. This is a puzzle for theories which directly link money demand to consumption. This paper shows that the joint distribution of money and financial assets can be explained in a heterogeneous-agent model where both a cash-in-advance constraint and financial adjustment costs, as in the Baumol–Tobin literature, are introduced. Studying each friction in turn, one finds that the financial friction explains more than 78% of total money demand.

Keywords: Money Demand; Money Distribution; Heterogenous Agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2013.09.005

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