The demand for money in developing countries: Assessing the role of financial innovation

Carmen Reinhart, Patricio Arrau, Jose DeGregorio and Peter Wickham

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Abstract: Traditional specifications of money demand have been commonly plagU4:!d by persistent overprediction, implausible parameter estimates, and highly autocorrelated errors. This paper argues that some of those problems stem from the failure to account for the impact of financial innovation. We estimate money demand for ten developing countries employing various proxies for the innovation process and provide an assessment of the relative importance of this variable. We find that financial innovation plays an important role in determining money demand and its fluctuations, and that the importance of this role increases with the rate of inflation.

Keywords: money; demand; inflation; interest; rates; technological; innovation; financial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E4 E41 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991-05
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Journal Article: The demand for money in developing countries: Assessing the role of financial innovation (1995)
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