Reassessing The Stability of Broad Money Demand in Malaysia

Muhamed Zulkhibri

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper re-examines the money demand in Malaysia covering the period from 1974 to 2001, a period characterised by various events particularly the financial sector liberalisation, changes in monetary framework and currency crises. Our results support the existence of fairly stable long-run money demand function despite the various changes and developments in the economy. However, there is an evidence of instability in short-run money demand. On this ground, the monetary targeting framework in Malaysia seems to be appropriate at least in the 1990s and monetary aggregate continue to be a useful longer-term indicator in the formulation of monetary policy.

Keywords: money demand; cointegration; error-correction; Malaysia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2004-05-19
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Journal Article: Modelling the Stability of Money Demand in Small Open Economy: The Case of Malaysia (2005)
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