The case for a financial approach to money demand
Article dans une revue: The distribution of money across households is much more similar to the distribution of financial assets than to that of consumption expenditures. This is a puzzle for theories which directly link money demand to consumption. This paper shows that the joint distribution of money and financial assets can be explained in a heterogeneous-agent model where both a cash-in-advance constraint and financial adjustment costs, as in the Baumol–Tobin literature, are introduced. Studying each friction in turn, one finds that the financial friction explains more than 78% of total money demand.
Auteur(s)
Xavier Ragot
Revue
- Journal of Monetary Economics
Date de publication
- 2014
Mots-clés
- Money Demand
- Money Distribution
- Heterogenous Agents
- Money Demand
Référence interne
- 2441/3et7kqp7d68p4brtcm91ura8hv
Pages
- 94 – 107
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 62