The Market for Money and the Market for Credit: Theory, Evidence and Implications for Dutch Monetary Policy

ISBN-13: 9789020706857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 106 str.

Pieter Korteweg; P. Korteweg; P. D. Van Loo

Opis

In most Keynesian-type macroeconomic models the financial sector is modelled in terms of money demand, money supply and money market equilibrium. The market equations for private and government debt, i.e. credit, are implicit in these models by virtue of Walras' Law and need not be explicitly specified. Market equations for existing physical capital, or shares in capital, are absent from these models on the tacit assumption that physical capital cannot be traded and, consequently, has no market price. Money in these models is a substitute for private and government debt, not for current output, let alone for physical capital (or claims thereon). Models with these characteristics have three basic weaknesses. They narrow down the monetary transmission mechanism to a small subset of assets. Moreover, they produce downward-biased estimates of the degree of controllability of money in open economies if money and claims on physical capital are actually substitutes. Finally, these models are ill-suited to analyze adequately the effects of open market operations and of financing government budget deficits which change the stocks of money and debt.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. The markets for money and credit in an open economy.- 2.1. The balance sheets.- 2.2. The supply of money and credit: proximate determinants.- 2.3. The demand for and supply of money and credit: ultimate determinants.- 2.4. Money and credit: a summary of the model and some policy implications.- 3. The Dutch money and credit market: an empirical analysis 1961-I – 1972-IV.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Regression results.- 3.3. Behavioral elasticities.- 3.4. Policy implications.- 4. Summary and conclusions.- Appendix: Description of the data and list of instrumental variables.- References.- Notes.- Index of names.- Index of subjects.