Money demand in the euro area: do national differences matter?

Luca Dedola (), Eugenio Gaiotti and Luca Silipo

No 405, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper assesses the relevance of national information in estimating the demand for euro-area M3 from three perspectives. First, we check whether aggregating national money demands is appropriate. Second, we compare time-series and panel methods to estimate aggregate long-run coefficients. Finally, we investigate the differences among national money demands. We find that the hypothesis of perfect aggregation is not rejected. Nevertheless, some estimates of area-wide long-run parameters are sensitive to the method used to combine national information. We also find that the main difference among individual countries� money demands is their interest elasticity, as well as the existence of country-specific structural breaks.

Keywords: money demand; aggregation; European Central Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C23 E41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-06
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