Why U.S. Money does not Cause U.S. Output, but does Cause Hong Kong Output

Gabriel Rodríguez and Nicholas Rowe

No 0201E, Working Papers from University of Ottawa, Department of Economics

Abstract: Standard econometric tests for whether money causes output will be meaningless if monetary policy is chosen optimally to smooth fluctuations in output. If U.S. monetary policy were chosen to smooth U.S. output, we show that U.S. money will not Granger cause U.S. output. Indeed, as shown by Rowe and Yetman (2000), if there is a (say) 6 quarter lag in the e¤ect of money on output, then U.S. output will be unforecastable from any information set available to the Fed lagged 6 quarters. But if other countries, for example Hong Kong, have currencies that are fixed to the U.S. dollar, Hong Kong monetary policy will then be chosen in Washington D.C., with no concern for smoothing Hong Kong output. Econometric causality tests of U.S. money on Hong Kong output will then show evidence of causality. We test this empirically. Our empirical analysis also provides a measure of the degree to which macroeconomic stabilisation is sacrificed by adopting a fixed exchange rate rather than an independent monetary policy.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Causality; VECM; U.S. Money; U.S. Federal Funds Rate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C3 C5 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2002
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