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Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV

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Prodromidis, K. Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 17(3), 352-370. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.17.3.352
Prodromidis, Kyprianos P. "Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 17.3, 1984, 352-370. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.17.3.352
Prodromidis, Kyprianos P. (1984): Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 17, iss. 3, 352-370, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.17.3.352

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Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV

Prodromidis, Kyprianos P.

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 17 (1984), Iss. 3 : pp. 352–370

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Kyprianos P. Prodromidis, Athen

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Abstract

Determinants of Money Demand in Greece, 1966 I – 1977 IV

In this paper we examined the determinants of money demand in Greece. The paper consisted of a theoretical and an empirical part. In the theoretical part, we distinguished between the short-run and the long-run money demand equations and introduced an adjustment mechanism linking these two expressions. According to this mechanisms, the observable change in money stock was explained by two terms: the difference between actual and desired real cash balances in time period t – 1, and the change in the desired real cash balances from time period t — 1 to time period t. The arguments entering in the long- as well as in the short-run money demand equations were: permanent income, the rate of interest and the rate of change of the general price level. The empirical analysis was based on a sample of forty-eight quarterly observations covering the period 1966 I- 1977 IV, and utilized quarterly data going back to 1958 II for the formation of the necessary observations of the permanent variables. Thirty-two observations of a measured variable were needed to make one observation of a permanent variable. In the empirical part of the paper we tested for the stability as well as for the homogeneity of the long-run money demand equation in relation to prices. The results suggest that the demand for nominal cash balances in Greece was homogeneous to the first degree to prices (permanent or measured). However, the long-run demand function for real permanent (desired) money stock was unstable during the 1972 II to 1974 II period. The long-run elasticity estimates of real permanent money withrespect to real permanent income, the rate of interest and the rate of change of permanent prices were around 1.80 1.9, – 0.15 and – 0.11, respectively. Furthermore, the coefficients of the adjustment mechanism introduced in the paper were estimated to about 0.9 and 0.25, respectively. This finding suggests that, in the 1966 I- 1977 IV period, the relative change in the observable real money stock in Greece was explained mainly by the relative change in desired real cash balances, and in part by the relative change in the gap between the desired and measured real money stock of the preceding quarter. Finally, forecasts made for the first two quarters outside the sample period were satisfactory. The root mean square errors of the forecasts were less than one percent.